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excerpt of what was published in the Egyptian An excerpt of what was published in Egyptian
magazines on April 22nd, 1938, about the opening magazines on April 22nd, 1938, about the attendance of

of Cairo Salon by King Farouk. Queen Farida at the opening of Cairo Salon.

a collection of relief sculptures most Muhammad Ali Pasha, relief sculpture on marble,
of which were executed during the 27 x 21.5 cm, by Ahmed Ibrahim
1940s by a group of sculptors who held
artistic jobs in some departments of
different ministries, such as Ministry of
Agriculture, Ministry of Public Works
(presently Ministry of Water Resources
and Irrigation), and Ministry of Health.

Among those sculptors was one who
was an employee at Fouad I Museum
at Ministry of Health at that time. He
was the artist Ahmed Ibrahim whose
number of his relief sculptural artworks
are included at the show, embodying the
figures of Muhammad Ali Pasha, Sultan
Hussein Kamel (1917 -1853), King
Fouad, and King Farouk; these artworks
were dedicated to Farouk on different
occasions.

It seems that Ahmed Ibrahim was a leader in his career which qualified him to be
assigned the official tasks of sculpting the memorial photographs of political celebrities

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