El Gazzar

1940-1959

The Popular Chorus or Food or Comrades on the Theatre of Life

Painted in 1948 (post-dated 1951)

Oil and pen and India ink on celotex 50 × 70 cm (19.5/8 × 27.1/2 in.)

Signed ‘elgazzar ’ and signed and dated in Arabic (lower right)

Current location

Naguib Sawiris, Cairo (acquired in …. ?).

Provenance

The artist’s estate, Cairo, until at least 1988. Mr. & Mrs. Ahmed El-Barda’e, Cairo.

Literature

Illustrated in color in the Gazzar Archives Album (dated ‘1948’). Al-Sharouny, 1966b, p. 30 (illustrated p. 31; dated ‘1948’). Karnouk, 1988, p. 31 (illustrated; titled: The Theatre of Life). El-Dorghamy, 2016, p. 128 (illustrated in color; titled: The Popular Chorus).

Exhibitions

(Probably) Paris, 1949, no. 725 (titled: Réunion). Cairo, 1951, no. 25 (titled: Réunion). Cairo, 1985b. Cairo/Seoul, 2016-2017.

© Emad Abd El Hady, Cairo

Zuleikha’s Wedding or The Story of Zuleikha

Painted in 1948

90 × 62 cm (35.3/8 × 24.3/8 in.)

Oil on board

Signed ‘Elgazzar’ and signed in Arabic (lower right)

Current location

Naguib Sawiris, Cairo (by whom acquired in October 2002).

Provenance

The artist’s estate, Cairo. Ebdaa Gallery, Cairo.

Literature

Illustrated in color in the Gazzar Archives Album (dimensions: 96 × 68cm.).

Azar, 1953a (illustrated).

Azar, 1954, p. 45 (illustrated; titled: Le Mariage de Zuleika).

Azar, 1961, p. 74 (illustrated pl. 51; dated 1951-1952).

Al-Sharouny, 1966b (illustrated in color in a fold-out of the back cover).

Amin, 1967, p. 83.

Al-Ahram, 1971 (illustrated).

Naguib, 1980, p. 76 (illustrated).

Naguib, 1982, p. 129 (illustrated).

Al-Kawakeb, 1990 (illustrated).

Darwish, 1990 illustrated).

Roussillon, 1990, p. 49 (illustrated in color p. 48; titled: Les noces de Zulikha; detail illustrated in color on the book’s back cover).

Naguib, 1993 (illustrated).

Al-Ahram, 2000, p. 31 (illustrated).

Al-Sharouny, 2000a (illustrated on the front cover in color; illustrated in color).

El-Kafrawi, 2000, p. 87 (illustrated in color). Hawaa, 2000 (illustrated in color).

Hamdy, 2001, p. 73 (illustrated in color).

Bisar, 2002, p. 151 (illustrated).

El-Helal, 2002, p. 151 (illustrated in color). Azar, 2005, p. 78 (illustrated in color).

Al-Sharouny, 2007, p. 62 (illustrated in color).

El-Razzaz, 2007 (illustrated in color).

Hosni, 2009, p. 72 (illustrated in color).

El-Hindy, 2010, p. 105 (illustrated in color).

Awad Abd El-Aal, 2014 (illustrated in color). Naguib, 2019, p. 243 (illustrated in color).

Seggerman, 2019, pp. 175-8 (illustrated in color pl. 19; titled: The Story of Zulaikha).

Exhibitions

Venice, 1956, no. 61 (titled: Storia di Zalikha; dated 1954-5).

Cairo, 1951, no. 9 (titled: Le mariage de Zoleikha).

Cairo, 1969, no. 7 (titled: Histoire de Zeleikha).

Cairo, 1985b (medium: ‘oil on cardboard’).

Cairo, 1990b (illustrated in color on the invitation card).

Cairo, 2001 (illustrated in color on the invitation card).

© Emad Abd El Hady, Cairo

Adham or The Man and the bugle

Signed and dated in Arabic (lower right)

Oil on celotex

41 × 34 cm (16.1/8 × 13.3/8 in.)

Painted in 1949

Current location

Yasser Zaki Hashem, Cairo.

Provenance

The artist’s estate, Cairo.

Aïda Ayoub Gallery, Cairo, by 1985.

Literature

Roussillon, 1990, p. 93 (illustrated; titled: Adham; dated ‘1951’).

Exhibition Cairo, 1985b.

© Hesham Salama, Alexandria

The Water Carrier

Painted in 1950

Oil on celotex 100 × 70.5 cm (39.1/8 × 27.1/2 in.) Signed and dated in Arabic (lower left)

Current location Museum of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Cairo.

Provenance

The artist’s project for his graduation from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Cairo.

Literature Illustrated in color in the Gazzar Archives Album. Al-Sharouny, 1990, p. 21 (illustrated in color). Roussillon, 1990 (illustrated in color p. 58). Al-Sharouny, 2007, p. 26 (illustrated in color). Hosni, 2009, p. 77 (illustrated in color and illustrated on the back cover; titled: Waterman) El-Hindy, 2010, p. 109 (illustrated in color). Hosny, 2012 (illustrated in color). Amin, 2013, p. 69 (illustrated in color). Al-Ahram, 2016 (illustrated in color).

Exhibition Cairo, 1950.

© Emad Abd El Hady, Cairo

Street scene

Painted in 1950 Oil on canvas

Signed and dated in Arabic (lower right)

Current location Unknown.

Provenance

The artist’s project of graduation at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Cairo.

Literature Illustrated in the Gazzar Archives Album.

© Hesham Salama, Alexandria / The Abdel Hadi El-Gazzar Family Archives, Cairo

Women mourning

Painted in 1950 Oil on canvas

Signed and dated in Arabic (lower left)

Current location Unknown.

Provenance

The artist’s project of graduation at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Cairo.

Literature Illustrated in the Gazzar Archives Album. El-Hindy, 2010, p. 215 (illustrated).

© Hesham Salama, Alexandria / The Abdel Hadi El-Gazzar Family Archives, Cairo

El Hady El Gazzar

Untitled (Eid Al-Adha)

Painted circa late 1950s. Oil on celotex …. (format) … (signature)

Current location Unknown.

Provenance The artist’s estate, Cairo.

Literature Illustrated in the Gazzar Archives Album.

© Hesham Salama, Alexandria / The Abdel Hadi El-Gazzar Family Archives, Cairo

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Untitled (The Newborn)

Painted circa 1950s Oil on celotex

77.6 × 91.3 cm (30.3/8 × 35.7/8 in.) Signed in Arabic (lower left)

Current location

Yasser Zaki Hashem, Cairo (by whom acquired in 1985).

Provenance

The artist’s estate, Cairo.

Aïda Ayoub Gallery, Cairo.

Literature

Iskandar & Al-Mallakh, 1962 (illustrated in a black and white photograph).

Abd El Hady El Gazzar

© Hesham Salama, Alexandria

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Portrait of a woman (after a

portrait by Vittore Carpaccio)

Painted in the 1950s Oil on panel 37 × 28 cm (14.1/2 × 11 cm)

Current location The artist’s estate.

© Emad Abd El Hady, Cairo.

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