NOW AND TEN

PROPERTY FROM
THE ESTATE OF HUSSEIN BEK SAÏD
*3
MAHMOUD SAÏD
(EGYPTIAN, 1897-1964)
Le Nil à El Derr (Nubie) (The Nile in El Derr, Nubia)
signed and dated ‘M.SAÏD 1933’ (lower right)
oil on panel
24Ω x 31ºin. (62.3 x 79.3cm.)
Painted in 1933
US$250,000-350,000
AED910,000-1,300,000
PROVENANCE:
A gift from the artist to his brother, Hussein Bek Saïd.
LITERATURE:
La Semaine Egyptienne. Cahiers des peintres et sculpteurs de l’Egypte moderne,
no. 1 - Mahmoud Saïd, 31 January 1936, no. 40 (listed, not illustrated).
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. 294 (illustrated in colour, p. 294 & p. 310).
This work will be included in the forthcoming Mahmoud Saïd
Catalogue raisonné, currently being prepared by Dr. Hussam Rashwan
and Valérie Didier Hess.
The present lot in situ on the wall in Hussein Bek Saïd’s home, Alexandria, circa 1940s.
© Hesham Salama, Alexandria.
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