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F N Souza
(1924 - 2002)

Untitled (Lovers)



“My drawings and paintings, for instance, are made of a little structure: two parallel lines cross-hatched on either side e.g. all my work-still-lifes, landscapes, portraits and compositions-are based on this principle.” - F N SOUZA

While his fellow members and associates of the Progressive Artists’ Group, such as S H Raza and Akbar Padamsee, began moving from figuration to abstraction by the late 1950s, F N Souza resolutely remained a...



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  Lot 20 of 78  

EVENING SALE: MODERN ART
16 SEPTEMBER 2023

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Winning Bid
Rs 81,60,000
$98,313

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ARTWORK DETAILS

F N Souza
Untitled (Lovers)

Signed and dated 'Souza 63' (upper centre)
1963
Mixed media on silk laid on board
27.25 x 37.75 in (69 x 96 cm)

PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Mumbai
Heart Intuitive Logic, 27-28 November 1999, lot 191
Acquired from the above
Property from the Jane and Kito de Boer Collection

EXHIBITED
The Window is Open, Mumbai: The Window, 12 - 24 November 1998

PUBLISHED
Yashodhara Dalmia, "Modernism Reinvented in Bombay: The Art of the Progressives," Rob Dean, Giles Tillotson eds., Modern Indian Painting: Jane & Kito de Boer Collection, Ahmedabad: Mapin Publishing, 2019, p. 115 (illustrated)

Category: Painting
Style: Figurative


 









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