Mansour’s world fuses elements from Egyptian myth and rural landscape, within an imaginary nocturnal environment, characterized by his near absolute monotone palette which is predominantly composed in consistent tones of blues.
Sabry Mansour was born in Menoufia, in Egypt’s Nile Delta region in 1943. He earned his BA at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Helwan University in 1964 as a painter. He was a professor of drawing at the Faculty of Fine Arts in San Fernando, Madrid in 1978 and a member of the board for Egypt’s Syndicate of Fine Artists from 1983 to 1987. He became head of the painting department at his alma mater in 1989 and served as its dean of fine arts from 1989 to 1992. Mansour has held solo exhibitions since the 1970s beginning in Alexandria then Cairo, before gaining international exposure featuring in group exhibitions in; Spain, Italy, Syria, U.K., France and Kuwait. Sabry has also been a frequent fixture at the Cairo Salon and the Annual Exhibition of Fine Arts in Egypt from 1969 to 1988.
Mansour won the acquisitions prize at the Alexandria Biennale of 1971 and the first prize at the Kuwait Biennale of 1985 as well as various domestic accolades including the award for painting at the 1982 edition of the Annual Exhibition of Fine Arts. His work resides in private collections in countries all around the world, as well as in various national collections including; Museum of the Modern Egyptian Art, Museum of Faculty of Fine Arts, Opera House Museum and Alexandria Museum of Fine Arts. His works were also acquired by and on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, Qatar. His artistic inspiration is rooted in the arts of ancient Egypt, the transfigurations in Coptic culture, and the organic figures and architectural patterns in Islamic design. Mansour’s world fuses elements from Egyptian myth, and rural landscape within an imaginary nocturnal environment, characterized by his near absolute monotone palette which is predominantly composed in consistent tones of blues.