About Anne Said
Lived 1914 – 1995 (aged 80–81). Anne Said was a British painter, artist and draftsperson.
Anne Said (19 August 1914 – 1995) was a British artist known for the quality of her drawings.
Biography Said was born in Hook in Hampshire and was educated at Queen's College in central London from 1925 to 1930. During the 1930s she studied art in Paris, occasionally taking lessons from Amédée Ozenfant which she paid for by designing and selling fabrics. In 1941 Said moved to Egypt where she taught art to a group of students with her husband Hamed Said. This resulted in two group exhibitions held in Cairo in 1948 and 1955.
Said's early works were signed Anne Cobham and her daughter is the artist Safaya Salter.
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British painter (1914-1995)
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Anne Said was born in 1914 in Hampshire, Hook.
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Anne Said died in 1995.
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Anne Said was a painter, artist and draftsperson.
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