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Georges Bahgory
Georges Bahgory (b. 1932) is an Egyptian-French painter and sculptor. Bahgory, who today lives in Paris, studied painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Zamalek with Hussein Bicar. He worked for Sabah Al Khair and Rose El Youssef from the mid 1950ies to mid 1970ies as a political cartoonist.
Sabry Ragheb / Hussein Bicar / Georges Bahgory
All three artists portrayed Hassan Heshmat in their own very typical style. Ragheb and Bicar were known as masters of portrait-painting, while Bahgory was also famous for his caricatures.