Mahmoud Said Bey () (April 8, 1897 – April 8, 1964) was an Alexandrian judge and modern painter.

Life

Mahmoud Said was born in

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, Egypt; his father,

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, was of

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origin and was the former Prime Minister of Egypt. Queen Farida of Egypt was his niece and she described him as "a quiet, gentle, oppressively timid man".''Modern and Calligraphic Arab and Iranian Art London 23 October 2008.'' Auction catalogue.

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, London, 2008, pp. 46-51. After receiving his high school diploma, he went on to law school, receiving his degree in 1919. Between 1919 and 1921 he travelled through Europe, ultimately studying at the

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. He returned to Egypt and worked at the

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until his father's death in the 1950s. Between 1919 and his death in 1964, Said was a prolific oil painter. In Alexandria, he first trained for two years with the Italian painter Amelia Casonato Da Forno from 1912 and later with Arturo Zanieri from 1916. He often shared the studio of his good friend, the Greek painter Aristomenis Angelopoulos (Αριστομένης Αγγελόπουλος).

Exhibitions

*New York, 1937. *

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, 1938, 1948.

Collections

Gezira Center for Modern Art The Museum of Modern Egyptian Art, is Cairo, Egypt's main modern art museum holding collections of early 20th Century contemporary art pioneers, including Mahmoud Said, Ragheb Ayad, Gazbeya Sirry, and Abdel Hadi Al-Gazzar, among others. It was ...

, Cairo, Egypt. *Mahmoud Said Museum, Alexandria, Egypt. * Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar. *

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, Paris, France. * Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE

Museum

The Mahmoud Said Museum is located in the family villa in the Gianaclis neighborhood of Alexandria.

References

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