LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on board

Measurements:

32.68 in. (83.00 cm.) (height) by 19.29 in. (49.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'Salah Taher' and dated '1954' in Arabic (upper left)

Condition:

framed

Exhibited:

Taher's painted academic portraits of President Anwar Sadaat , Om Kalthoum and many kings, princes, first ladies and leading men. Overall, he painted approximately 15000 paintings and held more than 80 art exhibitions. His work has been in Egypt, Venice, New York, San Francisco, Geneva, Beirut, Kuwait and Jeddah. He was granted the highest awards in Egypt and internationally, among them, the State Incentive Award in 1959, the Alexandria Biennale Award and the Guggenheim Foundation Award in 1961, the Egyptian State Merit Award in 1974, the "First Prize Biennial Alexandria" in 1996

Literature:

Amr El Bilassy, Shell, Pioneers of Modern Egyptian Art, 13th edition, April-June 1996, illustrated on page 136

Provenance:

Property from a private collection, Alexandria