Aug 08, 2024 - Sale 2676

Sale 2676 - Lot 278

Price Realized: $ 531
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200

ISMÄEL M. AZMY (DATES UNKNOWN)

ROMANCE IN EGYPT. Circa 1938.


39½x28 inches, 100½x71 cm. Institut Graphique Egyptien, Egypt.
Condition B+: replaced losses in margins; repaired tears at edges, some into image and text; minor overpainting at repaired tears along right image; creases and abrasions in margins and image.

Little is known of this artist who designed at least four separate travel posters promoting tourism in Egypt. Each of his images has a very atmospheric use of light.