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Germany, Yugoslavia, Poland, Italy, Tokyo, and India. She won the Saloon Du Caire award in 1959 and 1960, the Cairo Production Exhibition prize in 1957, and the Ljublyana Honorary Prize in 1961. Helmy went on to become a lecturer at the Fine Arts Institute in Cairo, a Professor of Fine Arts at the Helwan University in Cairo, an Honorary Professor of Etching at the
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After winning the Slade Prize of
Etching in 1955, Menhat Helmy went on to participate in exhibitions around the world. She took part in most local exhibitions in Egypt from 1956 onwards and held her first private etching exhibition in 1966. She participated in many international biennales of etchings
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Menhat Helmy was born in Helwan, Egypt in on July 11, 1925 as the middle child in a family of seven sisters and two brothers. She graduated from Cairo's High
Institute of Pedagogic Studies for Art in 1949 before continuing her education abroad at the
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Slade School of Fine Arts Prize for
Etching (1955), Salon Du Caire Prize (1959 and 1960), Cairo Production Exhibition Prize (1957), Ljublyana Honorary Prize (1961), National Merit Prize for Etching, Egypt
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Alexandria Biennale, Ljublyana (Yugoslavia, Grakow (Poland), Frechen (West Germany), Tokyo (Japan), Biella (Italy) and Fredrikstad (Norway).
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and is in private collections in Egypt, Germany, Britain, the U.A.E., and the United States. One of her abstract etching, 'To the Point,' was donated to
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Solo Show, Etchings at Akhnaton Hall, Cairo, Egypt, 1966.
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