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F N SOUZA
(1924‒2002)
Untitled
Signed and dated ‘Souza 57’
(lower left and upper right)
1957
Graphite and ink on newspaper
pasted on paper
11 x 8.5 in ( 28 x 21.5 cm )
$ 4,055 ‒ 5,410
Rs 3,00,000 ‒ 4,00,000
PROVENANACE
Formerly from the Estate of F N Souza
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F N SOUZA
(1924‒2002)
Untitled
Signed and dated ‘Souza 84’ (centre right)
1984
Felt tip pen and gouache on paper
8 x 10.75 in (20.5 x 27 cm)
$ 2,705 ‒ 4,055
Rs 2,00,000 ‒ 3,00,000
This lot is offered at NO RESERVE
PROVENANCE
Formerly from the Collection of Keren Souza Kohn
Lots 2 – 5 are examples of Souza's futuristic ‘Heads,’ which appeared in his oeuvre from the 1940s onwards. Offering a channel
for his observations and social commentary, they sometimes symbolised a cynical view of human hypocrisy and decadence, or
scathing critiques of the soulless clergy and gentry – and were occasionally even representations of the self. According to Edwin
Mullins, "...because his images are clearly intended to be human, one is compelled to ask why his faces have eyes high up in the
forehead, or else scattered in profusion all over the face; why he paints mouths that stretch like hair combs across the face, and
limbs that branch out like thistles. Souza's imagery is not a surrealist vision – a self‒conscious aesthetic shock – so much as a
spontaneous re‒creation of the world as he has seen it, distilled in the mind by a host of private experiences and associations."
(Edwin Mullins,
Souza
, London: Anthony Blond Ltd., 1962, p. 39)
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