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MAHMOUD SAÏD (1897, ALEXANDRIA - 1964, ALEXANDRIA)
Le Lac sacré à Louxor (The Sacred Lake in Luxor)
signed 'M. SAÏD' (lower right)
oil on canvas laid on board
712 x 11in. (19 x 28cm.)
Painted in 1918
Provenance
The Artist.
Hussein Bek Saïd Collection, Alexandria (acquired from the above by 1936).
Thence by descent to the present owner.
Literature
La Semaine Égyptienne. Cahiers des peintres et sculpteurs de l' Égypte moderne, no. 1: Mahmoud Saïd, 31 January 1936, no. 37 (titled Le lac sacré à Karnak).
E. Dawastashy, Mahmoud Saïd: Memorial Book on the Pioneer of Contemporary Egyptian Painting - On the 100th Anniversary of his Birth, Cairo 1997, no. 6.
V. D. Hess and H. Rashwan (eds.), Mahmoud Saïd Catalogue Raisonné Volume 1. Paintings, Milan 2016, no. P17 (illustrated in colour, p. 238).
Exhibited
Alexandria, Musée des Beaux-Arts and Centre Culturel, À l’occasion du Douxième Anniversaire de la Révolution: Exposition rétrospective des oeuvres du peintre lauréat Mahmoud Saïd 1897-1964, 1964, no. 54.
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