LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

15.75 in. (40.00 cm.) (height) by 21.26 in. (54.00 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

signed "Owais 2009" (lower left)

Exhibited:

From 1948 to 1955, Owais worked as a drawing teacher in the Farouk Ist Secondary School in Alexandria. He traveled to Italy in 1952 and visited the Venice Biennale where the works of Italian Social Realist artists were being . In 1958, he was appointed a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Alexandria just after it was founded by the sculptor Ahmad Osman (1907 - 1970). In 1967, Owais received a scholarship to continue his studies at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid where he received his diploma in 1969. From 1977 to 1979, he served as the head of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Alexandria. He died in Cairo in 2011, at the age of ninety-two

Provenance:

Property from a private collection, Egypt