Name: ABDEL HADI EL-GAZZAR (1925, ALEXANDRIA - 1966, CAIRO)
Brand: The World of Shells
Price: 8000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

ABDEL HADI EL-GAZZAR (1925, ALEXANDRIA - 1966, CAIRO)
The World of Shells
signed in Arabic and dated '1948' (lower centre)
pastel on paper
13³⁄₄ x 10¹⁄₄in. (35 x 26cm.)
Executed in 1948

The artist’s estate, Cairo.
Dr. Mohamed Saïd Farsi, Jeddah & Alexandria, by whom acquired from the above.
Private collection, Egypt.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

S. Al-Sharouni, Abdel Hadi El-Gazzar, Cairo 2007 (illustrated in colour, p. 34; dated 1951)
V. Didier and Dr. H. Rashwan, El- Gazzar: The Complete Works, vol. II, Drawings, Paris 2023, no. D151 (illustrated in colour, p. 146).

This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Abdel Hadi El Gazzar Foundation, Giza.

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The World of Shells is a work on paper coming from the Collection of the Zulficar family, a noble family in Alexandria who are the descendants of Youssef Zulficar Pacha (1866-1952), a judge and the Vice-President of Alexandria’s Mixed Courts of Appeals and Zeinab Saïd, one of Mahmoud Saïd’s sisters, who was a lady-in-waiting to Queen Nazli and whose father was an Egyptian Prime Minister. Their daughter, Safinaz Zulficar also became Queen Farida when she married King Farouk I on 20 January 1938.