| Contemporary
Artists from the Valley of the Nile |
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"The
private collection of The Arab Bank and The Abdul Hameed
Shoman Foundation". |
| Egypt |
| Mahmoud
Mukhtar (1890-1970) |
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Bronze Sculpture (height 30cm)
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1891
Born in Tanbara
1908
Studied art in Cairo, then to Paris in 1911
His sculptures were the first works of modern
art by an Egyptian to be exhibited abroad
His most famous sculptures are :
Saad Zaghloul and Egypt's Awakening
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Yousef
Kamel (1890-1971)
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1891
Born in Cairo
1908
Studied at the School of Fine Arts in Cairo
1921
Traveled to Rome to resume studying art
1929
He became a professor of oil painting at The Higher
School of Fine Arts ( the first Egyptian to teach
there)
1971
Died in Cairo
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The
Market (oil on canvas 27 X 21) |
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Ragheb
Ayyad (1892-1982)
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The Camel Master (water color on paper 68.5 X
48) |
1892
Born in Faggala
1908
Studied at The Faculty of Fine Arts in Cairo
1925
Went to Rome to study Art for five years
1930
Head of the Decoration Department at the school
of Applied Arts
1942
Department Head of Independent Studies
1950
Curator of the Cairo Museum of Modern Art
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Seif
Wanly (1906-1979)
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1906
Born in Alexandria
1925-1929
Studied Art in Alexandria with an Italian painter
1932
He founded the first Egyptian artist's studio
in Alexandria
1959
Professor of painting in Alexandria Faculty of
Fine Arts
1979
Died in Stockholm
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Semaphore
(oil on canvas 80 X 63) |
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Angi
Aflaton (1924-1989)
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The High Dam (oil on canvas 102 X 66cm) |
1924
Born in Cairo
She studied art with Kamel Telmassany then with
Hamed Abdallah
1945
She joined the Democratic International Feminist
Union Published several books, the most famous
being "Eighty Million Women with Us"
Her art deals with social issues in Egypt, and
focuses on Women Workers
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Ramsis
Wissa (1911-1974)
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1911
Born in Cairo
1935
Studied Architecture and art in Paris
Opened a workshop for the children and the artisants
in the Egyptian countryside, thier tapestries
gained international recognition.
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Tapestry (300 X240cm) |
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Tahia
Halim (1919)
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Karkadeh Field (Oil on canvas 99 X99cm) |
1919
Born in Sudan
1941
Studied Art with Yousef Taraboulsi and then with
Hamed Abdullah
1949
Studied at the Julien Academy for three years,
Paris
She returned to Egypt and taught painting at her
studio in Zamalek from 1957-1960
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Jamal
Sajini (1917-1977 )
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1917
Born in Cairo
1950
Diploma in Sculpture and Medal Minting
Taught sculpture and art in Cairo
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Motherhood
Bronze Sculpture (54cm)
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Yousef
Sayyeda (1922 -1994 )
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Man's
Heart & Tongue
Acrylic on canvas (100 x 76cm)
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1922
Born in Damiat
1939
School of Applied arts in Cairo
1965
Doctorate in Art Spent his life painting and teaching
art
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1929
Born in Cairo
1953
Diploma from the Academy of Fine Art in Cairo
After
having lived in France for 25 years, he came
back to live in Egypt, and now heads the International
Uswan Symposium (1996)
His
forms are bold and full animated by lively but
sudued tonalities accentulated by the third
dimention of the papyrus that he uses as a main
medium for his work, but he remains famous as
a sculptor
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Bronze Sculpture (89 X 18 X 22)
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| Sudan |
| Mohammed
Omar Khalil (1936) |
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Graphic
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1936
Born in Burri, Sudan
Lives and works in New York since 1967
1959
Diploma in painting, school of Fine and Applied
Art in Khartoum
1963-1966
Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Florence
1971-1983
Taught at the Pratt Institue
1991
Started teaching at the New York University
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1957
Born in Wad Medani, Sudan. Works and lives in
Spain.
1978
B.A with Honours in painting from the College
of Fine Arts, Sudan
1983
Professor of Arts from Complutense University,
Madrid, Spain
1984
M.A Painting, Complutense University, Madrid,
Spain
1986
M.A Etching, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain
1991
Ph.D. Painting
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Acrylic on canvas on board |
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 "Artist
from the valley of the Nile - Egypt and the Sudan"
By Makram Henein
...One can rarely find a collection that is as complete
as the Arab Bank's collection in Cairo. Private companies
or organizations or even individuals, seldom achieve
that level of completion mainly because of a lack of
organization or because of hazardous circumstances.
The Arab Bank's collection of the 20th Century Egyptian
art comprises as much as six generations of artists,
the only missing elements being George Sabbagh and Mahmoud
Sai'd because of the scarcity and unavailability on
the market of their productions (for the first generation).
The bank has just acquired three rare works by the pioneer
Habib Georgi just before the printing of this book.
Amongst the Bank's numerous and carefully selected acquisitions,
it is important to mention four remarkable selections
of the greatest talents in Egyptian art.
The first collection comprises eight creations by Jamal
Sajini. (brass and bronze sculpture and oils).
The
second one is constituted by six of the best oils by
the famous Tahia Halim, plus one water colour.
The third one involves ten large pieces by Yousef Sayyda,
founder of the School of Calligraphy in Egypt and the
Arab world. It is worth mentioning his huge abstract
murals of 1.5 m x 3m.
And at last, seven of Angi Aflaton's most intense paintings
concerning social issues forms the fourth collection.
These four collections represent in my opinion the quintessential
of what exists in modern Egyptian art. This selection
acquired in an amazingly short period of time can be
cited as an example of a thoroughly completed collection
as much as for its chronology as for its scientific
approach, covering in that way an entire Century...
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Makram
Henien
Art Critic
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