Mahmoud Said is a prominent Egyptian graphic artist, born on April 8, 1897 and died on April 8, 1964. He began his career in the judiciary, but left this field to devote himself to art in 1947.
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Mahmoud Said was influenced by Flemish and Italian art before the Renaissance.
His works combine the Egyptian Pharaonic, Coptic, Islamic and popular spirit.
His most famous paintings are: "Bahri Girls", "Blue Dress", and "Muwali Dervish".
Awards and Honors
He received the State Appreciation Award in 1960.
He was awarded the Gold Medal of Honor at the 1937 Paris International Exhibition.
The value of Mahmoud Saeed’s artwork depends on several factors such as the work’s status, size, and date of creation.
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Mahmoud Said’s work can be found in many galleries and museums, and the artist’s "causal catalogue" was released in 2017, the first documented encyclopedia of Egyptian art.
A rare porcelain dish.
The new surprise is the discovery of a different artistic work from the paintings, which is a ceramic work by Mahmoud Said, a dish made of porcelain diameter of 39.5 cm, which was decorated with thermal colors covered with a glaze. The artist Mahmoud Said made the decoration on the dish by drawing inspired by ancient Egyptian art, and consists of the sun and the sky in the middle above the ground and the water surrounding it. He used blue, white, black and brown in his grades and signed it in black M. Said 1936. It is likely that he decorated this dish and signed it when he visited the Al-Huda ceramics factory established by Mrs. Huda Shaarawi in 1933 as they were linked by friendship and belonging to the fantasy group founded by the artist Mahmoud Mukhtar in 1928 and included artists Mohammed Naji, Mohammed Hassan, Mahmoud Saeed and Ahmed Al-Asabry.
AlThe porcelain dish signed by the artist Mahmoud Said, is currently in the hands of a man for the work of Mustafa Sheikh, who loves to acquire paintings and artworks of Egyptian and international art pioneers.
A plate of jelly.
The dish from the outside is painted with a plate of glaze and written in black with the word "Huda" EL-HODA referring to the factory of Al-Huda ceramics, which was established by Huda Shaarawi.
The work is not just a decorative piece.
This discovery adds a new dimension to the legacy of one of the giants of Arab plastic art, confirming that the greatness of the true artist extends beyond the boundaries of canvas to be printed on the finest materials. Similar to modern world art, such as Pablo Picasso And... Amedeo ModiglianiWho saw in the porcelain a new painting of their daring experiments, comes the discovery of a rare ceramic dish by the late Egyptian artist Mahmoud Saeed (1897-1964) to emphasize his universality and ability to highlight his artistic spirit no matter how different materials and materials.
The dish, which has recently been found, demonstrates the creativity of Said in dealing with thermal colors, where he decorated them with a captivating design for a colorful fish swimming in a space of decoration inspired by the Eastern and Alexandrian environment, which has always been his first inspiration. This work is not just a decorative piece, but a natural extension of his artistic expression that combined Egyptian originality and contemporary touch, to prove that his art was not confined to one frame
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