The "Negress" of Alexandria: African Womanhood in Modern Egyptian Art.

The article examines that Christie's Dubai sold a large painting to a private American bidder as the work, entitled La Négresse aux Bracelets (Negress with Bracelets) was created by the late Egyptian modernist Mahmoud Said and features a nearly life-size female figure seated beside a window that looks out onto the streets of Alexandria. Topics include examines that La Négresse within a wider corpus of fine artworks depicting "Black" and "Egyptian" people and created in Egypt between the World Wars.