Lot 25: MAHMOUD MOKHTAR | On the Banks of the Nile (Nahw Ma'a ElNil)

bronze, mid brown patina

height 40.5cm.; 15 7/8 in.

bronze, mid brown patina 

This work is in good condition. The condition of the bronze is very good with some wear to the head, shoulders and back and minor dirt to the surface consistent with age. There is some slight rubbing and oxidation along the folds of the sculpture. The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, with the overall tonality being slightly darker.
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Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Mokhtar, 1930 (another cast exhibited)

Badr El Din Abou Ghazi, Mokhtar; The Sculptor, Cairo, 1964, n.p. (another example in marble illustrated)
Magda Saad Eldin, Mahmoud Mokhtar and The Murmuring of Stones, Cairo, 2000, p. 7 (another example illustrated) 

Private collection, Paris, (acquired circa 1945); thence by descent