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F N Souza
(1924 - 2002)

Toreador



The importance of lines in F N Souza’s compositions can be attributed to his intensive training in draughtsmanship. Souza’s art education in both India and Europe left him a very accomplished draughtsman with an emphatic belief in the power of linework as the foundational pictorial element. Souza elucidates his philosophy of image-building as, “Drawing is the armature, the anatomy, the structure. I see drawing as solid even when I easily draw in...



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  Lot 51 of 55  

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13 MARCH 2024

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F N Souza
Toreador

Signed and dated 'Souza 66' (upper left); inscribed and dated 'F.N. SOUZA/ Toreador/ 1966' (on the reverse)
1966
Oil on canvas
29.5 x 19.75 in (75 x 50 cm)

PROVENANCE
The Shelley Souza Collection
Christie's, New York, 18 March 2014, lot 139
Property from a Private Middle Eastern Collection

EXHIBITED
Black Art & Other Paintings, London: Grosvenor Gallery, 10 May - 4 June 1966

Category: Painting
Style: Figurative


 









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