Lot 17: MAHMOUD SAÏD (EGYPTIAN, 1897-1964) (i) Assouan – île et dunes (esquisse) (i

MAHMOUD SAÏD (EGYPTIAN, 1897-1964) (i) Assouan – île et dunes (esquisse) (ii) Assouan – île et dunes (i) 8 1/2 x 11 3/4 in. (21.6 x 29.8cm.) (ii) indistinctly signed ‘M.SAÏD’ (lower right) oil on board, in two parts (ii) 21 1/4 x 28 3/4 in. (54 x 73cm.) Painted in 1949

EXHIBITED: (i) Guézireh, Société des Amis de l’Art sous le Patronage de S.M. Le Roi, Rétrospective des oeuvres de Mahmoud Saïd. 1921–1951, 1951, no. 123 (listed, not illustrated). (i), (ii) Probably Alexandria, Musée des Beaux-Arts & Centre Culturel, À l’occasion du Douxième Anniversaire de la Révolution: Exposition rétrospective des oeuvres du peintre lauréat Mahmoud Saïd 1897–1964, 1964, nos. 22 & 23 (listed, not illustrated, both titled: Paysage à Assouan; both incorrectly dated 1955).

LITERATURE: (i) E. Dawastashy, Mahmoud Saïd: Memorial Book on the Pioneer of Contemporary Egyptian Painting – On the 100th Anniversary of his Birth (in Arabic), Cairo 1997, no. 210 (illustrated, pp. 241 & 306). F. Wahba, Dialogues in the Language of Form. The Infuence of Alexandria on the Cultural and Artistic Environment of Mahmoud Saïd (in Arabic), series Horizons of Visual Art, Cairo 2007 ((illustrated, unpaged). R. O. Al-Shafei, Artist Mahmoud Saïd: An Artistic and Analytical Study (in Arabic & unpublished), M.A. Thesis, University of Alexandria, Faculty of Fine Arts 2012 ( illustrated, fg. 85). V. Didier Hess & Dr. H. Rashwan (eds.), Mahmoud Saïd catalogue raisonné, Vol. II, Drawings, Milan 2016 (detail of illustrated in colour p. 626). (i),(ii) V. Didier Hess & Dr. H. Rashwan (eds.), Mahmoud Saïd catalogue raisonné, Vol. I, Paintings, Milan 2016, nos. P283 & P 284 (illustrated in colour p. 487; (i) illustrated in colour, pp. 488-489). (ii) Probably E. Dawastashy, Mahmoud Saïd: Memorial Book on the Pioneer of Contemporary Egyptian Painting – On the 100th Anniversary of his Birth (in Arabic), Cairo 1997, no. 262 (listed, not illustrated, incorrectly dated 1955). MAHMOUD SAÏD THE ESSENCE OF MODERNITY IN EGYPT

PROVENANCE: Nadia Mahmoud Saïd (the artist’s daughter) and Dr Hassan El Khadem, Alexandria. Thence by descent to the present owner.