Egypt's Renaissance
Also known as Egypt Awakening Statue, نهضة مصر
1928
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Mahmoud Mukhtar's Aswan granite sculpture of a peasant woman lifting her veil while standing beside a rising Sphinx is the work he is best known for. Mukhtar showed a small model at the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris in 1920, where…
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- 1928
Mahmoud Mukhtar
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