LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

21.26 in. (54.00 cm.) (height) by 32.09 in. (81.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed, dated and dedicated 'à sa Majesté le Roi Fouad Ier, G.H. Sabbagh -1929-' (lower left)

Exhibited:

Paris, Galerie Eugène Druet, G.H. Sabbagh: L'Egypte , 1929, no. 9

Literature:

Anon., in Renaissance de l'Art , 1 November 1929 (illustrated, unpaged). J. Sabbagh, Georges Sabbagh, Peintures-Aquarelles-Dessins , Paris 1981, ref. K (illustrated, unpaged). J. & P. Sabbagh, Georges Sabbagh, Les secrets d'un face-à-face avec la peinture , Paris 1995, no. 478 (listed, not illustrated, p. 102)

Provenance:

The Distinguished Collection of H.R.H King Fouad I, Cairo. Private Collection of a former French Diplomat, Egypt. Acquired from the above by the present owner