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F N Souza
(1924 - 2002)

Front-Back Nude



“The bare-breasted, unashamedly sexual women made by Souza are by now well-known. Yet with each encounter we are faced afresh with their voluptuous sexuality. A fact often overlooked is the tenderness, bordering on a caress with which the feminine contours are drawn.”
(Yashodhara Dalmia, “The Underbelly of Existence,” The Demonic Line, DAG: New Delhi, 2001, p. 6)

While several of his modernist peers turned to abstraction,...



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F N Souza
Front-Back Nude

Signed and dated 'Souza 1950' (upper left); inscribed and dated 'F.N. SOUZA/ FRONT-BACK NUDE 1950' (on the reverse)
1950
Oil on board
34.75 x 23.5 in (88.5 x 60 cm)

PROVENANCE
Acquired directly from the artist, New York, circa 1982
Christie's, Mumbai, 11 December 2014, lot 7
Property from a Private Middle Eastern Collection

PUBLISHED
Aziz Kurtha, Francis Newton Souza: Bridging Western and Indian Modern Art, Ahmedabad: Mapin Publishing, 2006, p. 2, 212 (illustrated)

Category: Painting
Style: Figurative


 









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