
Nima Sagharchi
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Provenance:
Property from a private collection, Cairo, Egypt.
Born in El Fayoum, in 1963, Mohamed El Fayoumy is a member of the Mohmoud Mokhtar Association, the Cairo Atelier and the syndicate of Plastic Artists.
Strongly influenced both by his Egyptian heritage and by the works of Mahmoud Moukhtar, Fayoumu here depicts the Egypitan "fellaha", or peasant woman, a central motif of the countries modern art movement. A symbol of feminine grace, rural nobility, and the motherland, the fellaha was a powerful embodiment of Egyptian pride and nationalism.