SANS TITRE (Man seated at table)

Signed 'M.SAÏD' (lower right)
charcoal on paper 14 x 16cm. (5.1/2 x 6.3/8in.)
Executed circa 1920s

Private collection, Cairo.

Provenance: Samiha Hanem Riad (the artist’s wife), Alexandria; Galerie Smile (Mahmoud Abdou), Alexandria; Samiha Abdou, Alexandria; Dr Hussam Rashwan, Alexandria; Dr Ibrahim El-Darwish, Alexandria and thence by descent to the present owners.

To be recorded as n° D160ter

SANS TITRE (study from an Old Master painting)

Signed 'M.SAÏD' (lower right)
watercolour and pencil on paper 16 x 18cm. (6.3/8 x 7in.)
Executed circa 1920s

Private collection, Cairo.

Provenance: Samiha Hanem Riad (the artist’s wife), Alexandria; Galerie Smile (Mahmoud Abdou), Alexandria; Samiha Abdou, Alexandria; Dr Hussam Rashwan, Alexandria; Dr Ibrahim El-Darwish, Alexandria and thence by descent to the present owners.

To be recorded as n° D286bis

SANS TITRE (chevaux galopant)

Signed 'M.SAÏD' (lower right)
pen and India ink and wash on paper
12 x 17cm. (4.3/4 x 6.5/8in.)
Executed circa 1940s.

Provenance: Samiha Hanem Riad (the artist's wife); Mahmoud Abdou, Alexandria (acquired from the latter); Samiha Abdou (Galerie Smile), Alexandria (by descent from the latter); Khalaf Tayeh, Alexandria (acquired from the latter); Nadia Khalaf, Cairo (the latter's wife).

To be recorded as n° D 360bis

SANS TITRE (chevaux galopant)

Signed 'M.SAÏD' (lower right)
pen and India ink and wash on paper
15.3 x 29cm. (6 x 11.3/8in.)
Executed circa 1940s.

Provenance: Samiha Hanem Riad (the artist's wife); Mahmoud Abdou, Alexandria (acquired from the latter); Samiha Abdou (Galerie Smile), Alexandria (by descent from the latter); Malak Nour El Din, Alexandria, thence by descent to the present owner.

To be recorded as n° D 360ter

Profil d'un homme au turban

Signed 'M.SAÏD' (lower right)
Pencil on paper
Unknown dimensions
Current owner: Ethnographic Museum, Cairo (109 Al Kasr Al Aini, Cairo 1)

Literature: probably La Semaine Egyptienne, Cahiers des peintres et des sculpteurs de l'Egypte moderne, n°1: Mahmoud Saïd,
31 January 1936, n°7 (not illustrated; titled 'Dessins (crayon)').

To be recorded as n° D 160bis

Courtesy Safarkhan Gallery, Cairo

Portrait d'une femme, 1918

Signed and dated 'M.SAÏD 25.12.18' (lower right)
Pencil on paper
26 x 19cm. (10.1/4 x 7/12in.)
Current owner: Karim Wissa, Cairo, acquired from Safarkhan Gallery in the early 1990's.

Provenance: Samiha Abdou, Alexandria; Safarkhan Gallery, Cairo, acquired from the latter.

Note: it is thought that the sitter might be a nanny employed in the Saïd/Mazloum family and she appears to be the same woman depicted in cat. rais. ref. D333, which would suggest that the latter is dated earlier than what was suggested in the catalogue raisonné.

To be recorded as n° D 4bis

Portrait of Mohamed Pacha Saïd (esquisse), late 1920's

Oil on board
22 x 25cm. (8.5/8 x 9.7/8in.)
Private collection

Provenance: Ismaïl Mazloum (the artist's cousin), Cairo (a gift from the artist) thence by descent; sale, Christie's Dubai, 18 March 2017, lot 19.

To be recorded as n° P 51bis

D 370
Nu assis sur un divan (recto)
Nu assis (verso), 1950

Pencil on paper
50 x 30cm. (19.5/8 x 11.3/4in.)
Signed, dated and inscribed ‘A mon excellent ami Boctor. Mahmoud 1950’ (lower left; recto)
Private collection, Cairo

Provenance: Gabriel Boctor, Cairo (a gift from the artist)

P376
PÊCHE À MARSA MATROUH (esquisse), 1961

Oil on panel
24 x 40cm. (9.1/2 x 15.3/4in.)
Signed and dated ‘M.SAÏD 1961’ (lower left);
signed and dated in Arabic (lower right)
Signed, titled and dated ‘MAHMOUD SAÏD (Esquisse pour) “LA PÊCHE À MARSA MATROUH” 1961’ and signed, titled and dated in Arabic (on the reverse)

Private collection, Egypt.

Note: this is the preparatory oil sketch or ‘modello’ for P377 which is illustrated in black and white under P376 in the catalogue raisonné.

P 324
HANEM, 1951

Oil on canvas
72 x 56cm. (28.3/8 x 22in.)
Signed and dated ‘M.SAÏD 1951’ (lower right);
signed, titled an dated 'MAHMOUD SAÏD HANEM 1951' and in Arabic on the reverse
Private collection

Provenance: Mr. Tchakedjian, Cairo (acquired directly from the artist), thence by descent; sale, Christie's London, 25 October 2017
Exhibitions: Alexandria, 1960, n°59 (not illustrated)
Literature: Dawastashy, 1997b, n° 234 (icon p. 307); Al-Shafei, 2012, fig. 203

Note : to be sold at auction: Christie's London, 25 October 2017 (lot tbc)

P 276
Négresse au divan rouge, 1948

Oil on board 49 x 37 cm
Signed “M. SAÏD” (lower left); signed, titled and dated “MAHMOUD SAÏD ‘NÉGRESSE AU DIVAN ROUGE’ 1948” (on the reverse)
Private collection

Provenance: Henri El Kayem, Alexandria, by 1951.
Note: The provenance mentioned above was taken from the Guezireh Exhibition Catalogue of the 1951 retrospective but Henri El Kayem’s family does not recall this work being part of the latter’s collection. The present work was originally in the collection of Mahmoud Younes.

P 230
Grand nu à la rose, 1936

Oil on canvas (?)
70 x 100cm. (27.1/2 x 39.3/8in.)
Signed and dated “M. SAÏD 1936” (lower right)
Private collection, Cairo.

Provenance: King Farouk I & Queen Farida (Safinaz Zulficar, the artist’s niece), Cairo.
Exhibitions: possibly Alexandria, 1942.

P 72
Portrait de Mme Batanouni Bek (Fardous Hamada), 1923

Oil on canvas 80 x 70 cm
Signed and dated “M. SAÏD 1923” (lower left)
The Halim Family Museum of Time & Glass, Chicago

Provenance: Baghat Bek El Batanouni and Fardous Hamada, Alexandria (a gift from the artist); Sherif El-Batanouni, Alexandria (by descent from the latter); sale, Sotheby’s London, 25 April 2017, lot 35.
Literature: La Semaine Égyptienne, 1936a, no. 84 (not illustrated, titled Portrait de Mme Batanouni Bek).