The Magicians Paragraph Series.. What is the story of the painting he claimed to have stolen in the first episode?
Al-Shaima Ahmed Farooq
Published: Thursday, December 19, 2024 – 8:58 PM | Last Updated: Thursday, December 19, 2024 – 8:58 PM
The first episode of the series “The Magician’s Paragraph” aired on the Yango Play platform, starring Asma Jalal, Taha Desuki and Ali Kasem, written by Yad Saleh and directed by Tamer Mohsen.
The series topped the trend after the first episode became available as it was scheduled to air one episode weekly on the platform.
The events of the series revolve around a group of friends who are professional scammers.
In the first episode, a fraud operation is carried out by three men in Egypt and Morocco, which involves stealing a famous international painting from Egypt’s Muhammad Mahmoud Khalil Museum and his shrine, then a Cheating the dealer and selling a counterfeit copy. Its in Morocco.
– What is the story of “The White Lace” painting?
The episode focused on the trick that three friends tricked people into stealing the famous painting and then selling a fake copy of it.
This painting is called “With Necktie in White Tulle” and is a real painting by French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
The painting is a property of the Muhammad Mahmoud Khalil Museum in Giza Governorate and his wife.
The museum first opened in 1962, then moved to Prince Amr Ibrahim Palace in Zamalek in 1971. It reopened in 1979 in Jamal.
The museum is considered one of the most important museums of plastic art in Egypt, as it was built in 1920 in the French style by the late politician Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil, and he amassed a high-value artistic collection over a period of forty years. He died in 1953, he gave these collections to his bequeathed to his wife, who consequently recommended that they be moved to the palace, and their contents to a museum belonging to the Egyptian government after his death. was transferred.
The French collection inside the museum includes works by Europe’s best 19th-century artists, including Renoir and Van Gogh.
One of the most prominent paintings in the museum is Renoir’s “White Lace” which he painted for an unknown girl whose name is not mentioned Muhammad Mahmud Khalil bought this painting for his wife and it became part of the palace collection. It is one of the five paintings in the “Khalil Collection” by the same artist.
It is worth noting that the palace and its valuable contents underwent an extensive restoration and renovation process and the museum was re-opened on April 4, 2021 after restoration.
The museum’s holdings include a large number of oil, watercolor and pastel paintings, amounting to 304 paintings by 143 artists.
The museum houses 50 bronze, marble and gypsum statues, created by 14 examples, which closed in 2010 and development work began in 2014.
