Mahmoud Said
‘Le Pirée A L’aube,’ 1949, oil on board, 46 by 66 cm. (est. £300,000-400,000).
Mahmoud Said is one of the world’s most sought after collectible modern Arab artists and Sotheby’s lauds the Egyptian artist’s 1949 painting, ‘Le Pirée A L’aube,’ “a rare masterpiece, depicting an extraordinarily industrial scene, which strongly represents the impressions of Said’s European influence, following his travels in the 1920s.” Statements from Sotheby’s about Mahmoud Said’s work also said, “Said had an ability to capture the complexities of light in a way that gave all his paintings an otherworldly, soft dreamlike haze.”