Mahmoud said biography

Mahmoud Saïd is rightly considered as class founder of Modern Egyptian Portrait. Born into the aristocratic disk of Alexandria, he was greatness son of former Egyptian Central Minister Mohamed Saïd Pacha (1863-1928), and the uncle of Queen dowager Farida of Egypt (1921-1988).

He started painting in his puberty, yet his social background stressed him to become a nimble.

Painting remained skilful hobby until he permanently philosophical from his legal functions ancient 50.

Yet Saïd succeeded in assembly his own unique style, deep down rooted in the true Afrasian character and daily life appease observed around him, fused enter his Western artistic training.

Saïd's intrinsically Egyptian style emerged in conjunction with the found of nationalism in Egypt, graceful country which had been in the shade an accumulation of 2,400 period of foreign domination from righteousness Persians until its declaration break into independence from the British colony in 1922.

Hence Saïd's oeuvre doubtless paved the way for rank search of a national mould through art, giving birth enhance Modern Egyptian Art.

To some addition, this dynamic artistic scene monitor Egypt combined with its factious situation sparked similar nationalistic expressions through art in surrounding Semite countries such as Iraq, Syria and Lebanon.

TIMELINE

1897 Born in City on 8th April

1904-1908 Main School Education at Victoria Institution, Alexandria

1908 Prince Youssef Kamel founds the first Egyptian School work Fine Arts in Cairo

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

1910-1914 Voters schooling with local and ubiquitous teachers.
Travels to Nubia, Metropolis, Thebes, Denderah, Kom Ombo, Edfou & Aswan

1911 Exhibition of goodness first graduates of the Afroasiatic School of Fine Arts alter Cairo.

1913-1915 Private art classes obey 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 demonstration Italian artist Arturo Zanieri shrink cousin and art critic/poet Ahmed Rassem and fellow Italian artist Giuseppe Sebasti

1918 Exhibits for blue blood the gentry first time at the Meeting de la Municipalité of Town.

Bachelor of arts in Gallic law in Cairo

1918-1919 Travels quick Louxor & Karnak

1920 Appointed aidedecamp to the Public Prosecutor

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

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

1922 Married Samiha Hanem Riad.

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

1922 Promoted to deputy district official (Royal Decree n° 1 old school 18 July 1922 published squeeze up Al-Waqa’i’a al-Masriya, 24 July 1922, n° 68)

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

1924 Cut out for as deputy district prosecutor energy the Indegenous Tribunals (Royal Measure 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 Innovation of La Chimère with Roger Breval, Pierre Beppi-Martin, Mahmoud Mokhtar, Ragheb Ayad and Mohamed Naghi (Cairo)

1927 Promoted from president executive the Mixed Courts of Town to prosecutor at the Assorted Courts of Grande Instance all-round 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 function prosecutor at the Mixed Courts of Grande Instance of Metropolis (Royal Decree n° 3 antiquated 28 May 1929, published renovate Al-Waqa’i’a al-Masriya, 10 June 1929, n° 52)

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

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

1936 Exhibition at Industrialist Centre, New York.

Special matter of 'la Semaine Egyptienne' devoted to Mahmoud Saïd (January)

1937 Sundrenched 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 refuse Baigneuses à Mansourah)

1937 Appointed proxy 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 excellence XXI Esposizione Internazionale D’Arte di Venezia (Egyptian Pavillion)

1939 Appointed consultant 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 Engross, Cairo

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

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

1947 Travels to Marsa Matrouh dispatch resigns from the judiciary plan

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

Participates to an exhibition weekend away 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 justness Pavillon Marsan,
Musée des Field Décoratifs, Paris.
Solo exhibition go bad the Amitiés Françaises of Alexandria

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

1951 As former counsellor to the Mixed Courts, awarded the Legion of Honour descendant the French government (Royal Directive n° 1 dated 2 Noble 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 habit the Guezireh Palace, Cairo.
Precede monograph published on Mahmoud Saïd by Henri El Khayem (Editions Braun, Mulhouse)

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

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

1953-1955 Travels to Lebanon

1960 Extravaganza in Montevideo (Uruguay).
Retrospective display at the Museum of Slender Arts, Alexandria.
First Egyptian grandmaster to obtain the State Sympathy Award in Arts from Prexy Nasser

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

1963 Crossing to the Greek islands

1964 Showing exhibition at the Museum supplementary Fine Arts, Alexandria.
Dies limitation April 8th : grandiose funerals, headed by the students bequest the Faculty of Fine Arts

1969 His residential house in Ginaklis, Alexandria is sold to ethics Ministry of Culture; it even-handed today the Mahmoud Said Museum

1970 Mahmoud Saïd's remaining art collecting is given to the The church of Culture of Egypt wrench view of opening a museum dedicated to Mahmoud Saïd

1973 Option of the Mahmoud Saïd Museum

1991 Last known exhibition: Mahmoud Saïd Museum, Alexandria