{{Short description|British artist (1914–1995)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox artist | name = Anne Said | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1914|8|19}} | birth_place = Hook, Hampshire, England | death_date = 1995 | death_place = | education = Queen's College, London | known_for = | notable_works = ''Jo's Wild Wood'' (drawing, now in the Tate collection) | style = | movement = | spouse = Hamed Said | children = Safaya Salter | patrons = | footnotes = }} '''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.<ref name="Benezit12">{{cite book|publisher=Editions Grund, Paris|year=2006|title=Benezit Dictionary of Artists Volume 12 Rouco-Sommer|ISBN=2 7000 3082 6}}</ref> During the 1930s she studied art in Paris, occasionally taking lessions from Amédée Ozenfant which she paid for by designing and selling fabrics.<ref name="Benezit12"/><ref name="BuckmanVol2">{{cite book|author=David Buckman|publisher=Art Dictionaries Ltd|year=2006|title=Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 2, M to Z |ISBN=0 953260 95 X}}</ref> 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.<ref name="Benezit12"/><ref name="BuckmanVol2"/> Similar exhibitions were held in England hosted by the Arts Council during 1949 and in 1952 at the Islamic Cultural Centre in London.<ref name="AFoster"/> Later works by Said were included in a joint English and Egyptian limited edition book, ''The Word & The Image''.<ref name="BuckmanVol2"/> Said returned to England in 1955 and had a solo exhibition at the Beaux Arts Gallery in 1957 and also showed works at the New Art Centre.<ref name="BuckmanVol2"/><ref name="AFoster"/> In 1960 she moved to Wiltshire and there, among other works, she produced the drawing ''Jo's Wild Wood'' which is now in the Tate collection.<ref name="JWW">{{cite web|url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/said-jos-wild-wood-t00533|title=Catelogue entry:''Jo's Wild Wood''|website=Tate|access-date=3 January 2019}}</ref><ref name="AFoster">{{cite book|author=Alicia Foster|publisher=Tate Publishing|year=2004|title=Tate Women Artists|ISBN=1-85437-311-0}}</ref> Said's early works were signed Anne Cobham and her daughter is the artist Safaya Salter.<ref name="Benezit12"/>

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==External links== * {{Art UK bio}}

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