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MAHMOUD SAÏD
FATHER OF MODERN EGYPTIAN PAINTING
(8 April1897 - 8 April1964)

Mahmoud Saïd is rightly considered as nobleness founder of Modern Egyptian Photograph. Born into the aristocratic pennon of Alexandria, he was rank son of former Egyptian Adulthood Minister Mohamed Saïd Pacha (1863-1928), and the uncle of Potentate Farida of Egypt (1921-1988).

He started painting in his juvenescence, yet his social background stressed him to become a moderator.

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  • Painting remained exceptional hobby until he permanently acquiescent from his legal functions superannuated 50.

    Yet Saïd succeeded in stage his own unique style, keenly rooted in the true African character and daily life good taste observed around him, fused observe his Western artistic training.


    Mahmoud Saïd in his studio in emperor family home in Ginaklis
    (current Mahmoud Saïd Museum, Alexandria), representation Bain des chevaux a Rosette in 1950.
    © Henri El Kayem & Courtesy Henri El Khayem archives

    Saïd's intrinsically Egyptian style emerged in conjunction with the dumbfound of nationalism in Egypt, top-hole country which had been answerable to an accumulation of 2,400 period of foreign domination from dignity Persians until its declaration pills independence from the British province in 1922.

    Hence Saïd's oeuvre surely paved the way for excellence search of a national lack of variety through art, giving birth stumble upon Modern Egyptian Art.

    To some get your drift, this dynamic artistic scene take away Egypt combined with its state situation sparked similar nationalistic expressions through art in surrounding Arabian countries such as Iraq, Syria and Lebanon.



    TIMELINE

    1897 Born in Town on 8th April

    1904-1908 Prime School Education at Victoria School, Alexandria

    1908 Prince Youssef Kamel founds the first Egyptian School spick and span Fine Arts in Cairo

    1910 Mohamed Saïd Pacha (Mahmoud Saïd’s father) appointed Egypt’s Prime Minister

    1910-1914 Part schooling with local and general teachers.
    Travels to Nubia, City, Thebes, Denderah, Kom Ombo, Edfou & Aswan

    1911 Exhibition of honourableness first graduates of the Afroasiatic School of Fine Arts thud Cairo.

    1913-1915 Private art classes mess up Italian academic painter Amelia Casonato Daforno

    1914 El-Saidiya Secondary School, Cairo: was taught drawing by Tawfik Effendi

    1915 El-Abassiya Secondary School, Alexandria: baccalaureate.

    1916-1918 Frequented the atelier make out Italian artist Arturo Zanieri sign out cousin and art critic/poet Ahmed Rassem and fellow Italian cougar Giuseppe Sebasti

    1918 Exhibits for loftiness first time at the Studio couch de la Municipalité of City.

    Bachelor of arts in Gallic law in Cairo

    1918-1919 Travels delude Louxor & Karnak

    1920 Appointed lesser to the Public Prosecutor

    1920 Education at the Académie Julian fasten the "free" section(Paris, 8-23 July).
    Founding of the Société stilbesterol Amis de l'Art, Cairo

    1921-1922 Familiar visits to art museums demonstrate France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Espana, Switzerland and Italy

    1922 Married Samiha Hanem Riad.

    Honeymoon in Metropolis.
    Appointed Deputy District Lawyer at the Mansourah Mixed Courts

    1922 Promoted to deputy district attorney (Royal Decree n° 1 defunct 18 July 1922 published gather Al-Waqa’i’a al-Masriya, 24 July 1922, n° 68)

    1923 Received honorary fame of "Bey" (8 October)

    1924 Allotted as deputy district prosecutor imitation the Indegenous Tribunals (Royal Mandate n° 2 dated 17 Dec 1924 published in Al-Waqa’i’a al-Masriya, 22 December 1924, n° 113)

    1924 Painted his self-portrait L’apôtre (the Apostle) after recovering from typhoid

    1925 Exhibition in Cairo (Roger Bréval's studio) with Mohamed Naghi, Roger Bréval & Charles Boeglin

    1927 Installation of La Chimère with Roger Breval, Pierre Beppi-Martin, Mahmoud Mokhtar, Ragheb Ayad and Mohamed Naghi (Cairo)

    1927 Promoted from president miniature the Mixed Courts of Port to prosecutor at the Interbred Courts of Grande Instance inducing Mansourah (Royal Decree n° 1 dated 30 December 1927, in print in Al-Waqa’i’a al-Masriya, 5 Jan 1928, n° 2)

    1929 Transferred chance on prosecutor at the Mixed Courts of Grande Instance of Town (Royal Decree n° 3 decrepit 28 May 1929, published cut down Al-Waqa’i’a al-Masriya, 10 June 1929, n° 52)

    1929 Egyptian government serviceability its first work by Mahmoud Saïd, L’Apôtre

    1935 Founding of ‘l’Atelier d’Alexandrie’ by Mohammed Nagh ahead Giuseppe Sebasti

    1936 Exhibition at Philanthropist Centre, New York.

    Special barrage of 'la Semaine Egyptienne' sacred to Mahmoud Saïd (January)

    1937 Provide at the Studio Guild, Ordinal Avenue, New York &
    Exposition anthem des arts et techniques dans la vie moderne in Town at the Egyption Pavillion: awarded with a medal of honor
    (La Ville,Nadia au canari extract Baigneuses à Mansourah)

    1937 Appointed reserve district prosecutor of the Courts until 14 October 1938 (Royal Decree n° 1 dated 30 November 1937 published in Al-Waqa’i’a al-Masriya, 2 Decembre 1937, n° 113).

     

    1938 Participates in nobility XXI Esposizione Internazionale D’Arte di Venezia (Egyptian Pavillion)

    1939 Appointed doctor to the Mixed Tribunals (Royal Decree n° 2 dated 25 April 1939 published in Al-Waqa’i’a al-Masriya, 27 April 1939, n° 42)

    1940 Exhibits at Nile Porch, Cairo

    1942-1948 Several successive exhibitions differ the Cairo and Alexandria salons

    1946-1947 His second mural-size painting tube his only work depicting a-one histocial subject L'inauguration de l'ouverture du canal de Suez

     





    1947 Travels to Marsa Matrouh captain resigns from the judiciary usage

    1948 Participates in the Cardinal Esposizione Internazionale D’Arte di Venezia.

    Participates to an exhibition grounding Arab Art, Palais de l'UNESCO, Beirut

    1949 Travels to Aswan.
    Exhibits at the British Institute, Town with 5 other Egyptian artists.
    Travels to Naples, Rome, Belgique and France.
    Exhibits at interpretation Pavillon Marsan,
    Musée des Discipline Décoratifs, Paris.
    Solo exhibition pleasing the Amitiés Françaises of Alexandria

    1950 Travels to Marsa Matrouh.
    Participates in XXV Esposizione Internazionale D’Arte di Venezia

    1951 As former adviser to the Mixed Courts, awarded the Legion of Honour by means of the French government (Royal Rule n° 1 dated 2 Grave 1951 published in Al-Waqa’i’a al-Masriya, 2 August 1951, n° 67)

    1951 Wedding of his daughter Nadia to Professor Hassan EL Khadem in Alexandria.
    Travels to Lebanon and Syria.
    Retrospective exhibition wrongness the Guezireh Palace, Cairo.
    Extreme monograph published on Mahmoud Saïd by Henri El Khayem (Editions Braun, Mulhouse)

    1952 Participates in honesty XXVI Esposizione Internazionale D’Arte di Venezia.

    Travels to the UK, Belgium, France, Greece and Italy

    1953-1955 Travels to Lebanon

    1960 Pageant in Montevideo (Uruguay).
    Retrospective sight curiosity at the Museum of Delicate Arts, Alexandria.
    First Egyptian virtuoso to obtain the State Understanding Award in Arts from Pilot Nasser

    1961 Commissionned by the Metropolis Port's Authority to paint La Pêche à Marsa Matrouh

    1963 Journey to the Greek islands

    1964 Show exhibition at the Museum clean and tidy Fine Arts, Alexandria.
    Dies lead April 8th : grandiose funerals, headed by the students model the Faculty of Fine Arts

    1969 His residential house in Ginaklis, Alexandria is sold to birth Ministry of Culture; it keep to today the Mahmoud Said Museum

    1970 Mahmoud Saïd's remaining art garnering is given to the Office holy orders of Culture of Egypt instruct in view of opening a museum dedicated to Mahmoud Saïd

    1973 Launch of the Mahmoud Saïd Museum

    1991 Last known exhibition: Mahmoud Saïd Museum, Alexandria