Details
Abdul Hadi El-Gazzar (Egyptian, 1925-1965)
The First Song - The Slaughtered Victim's Dance (with a note by Ahmad Morsy)
signed and dated in Arabic (lower right); signed in Arabic (lower centre)
pen and India ink on paper
8½ x 13¾in. (21.5 x 35cm.)
Executed in 1954

Literature
S. Al-Sharouny, A Museum in a Book: The Farsi Art Collection "The Egyptian Works" Owned by Dr. Mohammed Said Farsi, Cairo 1998 (illustrated, pp. 280 and 287, ref 32/32).
Dr. S. Sharouny, Abdel Hadi Al-Gazzar, Cairo 2007 (illustrated in colour, p. 75).
A. Al Hindy, Abdul Hadi El-Gazzar: Reading into the Consciousness of People (in Arabic), Cairo 2010 (illustrated in colour, p. 134).
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