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EDWIN MULLINS
(b. 1933)
Souza
London: Anthony Blond Ltd., 1962
108 pages illustrated throughout with black‒and‒white
images and several colour plates. Full grey cloth bound
with black title on the front cover and spine with dust
jacket.
$ 500 ‒ 700
Rs 37,000 ‒ 51,800
This lot is offered at NO RESERVE
“…one of the most gifted and original of modern artists.”
EDWIN MULLINS
Souza
by British art critic Edwin Mullins is considered to be a seminal monograph on the Indian artist F N Souza. It was written
in 1962, during what is widely considered to be the artist’s most lucrative phase in London. “For almost ten years, from 1956
to 1966, [Souza] dominated the British art scene, showing his work and selling regularly. He was written about extensively and
received praise from critics such as John Berger, Edwin Mullins and David Sylvester, to name a few.” (Rasheed Araeen ed.,
The
Other Story: Afro‒Asian Artists in Post‒War Britain
, London: South Bank Centre, 1989, p. 23) Mullins was a close friend of the artist
and also owned several of his works in his private collection.
F N Souza
© Jyoti Bhatt
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