Details
MAHMOUD MOKHTAR (1891, TANBARA - 1934, CAIRO)
Ala Shat El Nil (Au Bord du Nil/On the Banks of the Nile)
incised with the artist’s signature ‘MOUKTAR’ (to the right side of the base); ‘Susse Frs Edts Paris’ and stamped with the Susse foundry mark (to the left side of the base)
bronze
3312 x 778 x 678in. (85.2 x 20 x 17.5cm.)
Executed circa 1942-1948, this is a posthumous cast from an edition of unknown number
Provenance
Private Collection, Paris (by the 1950s).
Thence by descent to the present owner.
FURTHER DETAILS
The work is accompanied by a cast certificate from the Susse Archives.
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