Original Mid 20th C. Abstract Figural Lithograph - Pencil Signed-El Hussein Fawzi-"Filling Jar on the Nile"

Description

Artist: El Hussein Fawzi (Egypt, 1905 – 1996)
Title: "Filling Jar on the Nile".
Medium: Original Lithograph
Signed: Pencil signed … more Artist: El Hussein Fawzi (Egypt, 1905 – 1996)
Title: "Filling Jar on the Nile".
Medium: Original Lithograph
Signed: Pencil signed by the artist on lower left
Date: Mid 20th century
Dimensions: 21" x 25"
Housed in a wooden frame

This iconic image was created by the listed Egyptian artist El Hussein Fawzi in the mid 20th century. It screams mid century modern! We love this lithograph. We have enjoyed it for a while in our collection and it is time to pass it on to a new home. Fawzi's works are desireable and rare.

EL HUSSEIN FAWZI (1905-1999). was born in Helmia district, Cairo on 4 September 1905, He was known in Egypt and the Middle East for his pioneering work in the field of journalistic graphic arts. Fawzi began his artistic studies in 1922 at the School of Fine Arts, studying oil painting. He won the first prize at an art competition for which he rceived an art fellowship in 1928 and entered the printing school in Paris, from which he received a lithography diploma in 1932. He also studied lithography at the Estienne School in Paris.

He was an artist and professor of oil painting before joining the Paris Higher School of Arts and Decoration from which he received a diploma in1933. Although Fawzi’s fame was as a graphic artist he also had an active career in the fine arts. Upon his return to Egypt, he founded the Department of Graphic Arts at Faculty of Fine Arts and later was appointed director of the department, a position he held until his retirement.

El Hussein Fawzi painted one of the most renowned and beautiful paintings in the history of Egyptian art called “El Dalalah”. He also supervised the Fine Arts Studio in Luxor from 1954 to 1960. Fawzi was one of four Egyptian artists to have their work engraved on crystal by the Steuben glass factory in New York.

Fawzi was awarded the State Prize and Order of Sciences and Arts in 1963, and in the same year, won the Lithography prize at the Alexandria Biennial. In 1989 he was awarded the State Prize of Merit.

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