Lot 27: MAHMOUD SAID (EGYPT, 1897-1964) Le Nil à Asouan (The Nile at Aswan) o

MAHMOUD SAID (EGYPT, 1897-1964) Le Nil à Asouan (The Nile at Aswan) oil on canvas, framed signed M Said and dated 1947 (lower left), executed in 1947 55 x 72cm (21 5/8 x 28 3/8in).

Provenance Property from a private collection, Alexandria Originally acquired by Mohie Eldin Ellabbad, circa 1960’s Acquired from the above by Dr Hussein El Shaboury, circa 1990’s Acquired by the present owner in 1999 Literature The Cultural Development Fund, The Egyptian Ministry of Culture, Mahmoud Said, Cairo, 1 October 1999 Hussan Rachwan, Valerie Didier Hess, Mahmoud Saïd: Catalogue Raisonné, Skira Editore, 2016