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

Life

Mahmoud Said was born in

Alexandria Alexandria ( or ; ar, ٱلْإِسْكَنْدَرِيَّةُ ; grc-gre, Αλεξάνδρεια, Alexándria) is the second largest city in Egypt, and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast. Founded in by Alexander the Great, Alexandr ...

, Egypt; his father,

Muhammad Said Pasha Mohamed Said Pasha ( ar, محمد سعيد باشا) (19 January 1863 - 1928), was Prime Minister of Egypt from 1910 to 1914, and again in 1919. He was born in Alexandria to a family of Turkish origin. He was the father of the artist Mahmoud Sa' ...

, was of Turkish 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 Mixed Courts of Egypt 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

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, 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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Said, Mahmoud 1897 births 1964 deaths Artists from Alexandria 20th-century Egyptian judges Egyptian people of Turkish descent 20th-century Egyptian painters 20th-century Egyptian male artists Egyptian male painters