Francis Newton (FN) Souza PRICE CHARTS
1924 Saligoa, Goa, India - 2002 Mumbai, India. Known for: Avant garde still life and landscape painting, human form-heads.
One cannot walk into a roomful of Souzas without at once being forced to participate in certain passions and fears which make these violent distortions of the visual world explicable and sympathetic.... Read full biography
One cannot walk into a roomful of Souzas without at once being forced to participate in certain passions and fears which make these violent distortions of the visual world explicable and sympathetic. Frequently these passions are not only violent but destructive, as though each painting liberated... Read full biography
One cannot walk into a roomful of Souzas without at once being forced to participate in certain passions and fears which make these violent distortions of the visual world explicable and sympathetic. Frequently these passions are not only violent but destructive, as though each painting liberated the artist from a private night-mare. His art is full of strange perversities and contradictions, too. all his most successful work seems to contain something of an emotional clash – vulgarity and... Read full biography
One cannot walk into a roomful of Souzas without at once being forced to participate in certain passions and fears which make these violent distortions of the visual world explicable and sympathetic. Frequently these passions are not only violent but destructive, as though each painting liberated the artist from a private night-mare. His art is full of strange perversities and contradictions, too. all his most successful work seems to contain something of an emotional clash – vulgarity and tenderness, or agony and wit, pathos and satire, aggression and composure. They have some of the sheer inventiveness of Picasso . and the same unresolved tumult.’ (Edwin Mullins, The Human and Divine Predicament, exhibition catalogue, Grosvenor Gallery,... Read full biography
One cannot walk into a roomful of Souzas without at once being forced to participate in certain passions and fears which make these violent distortions of the visual world explicable and sympathetic. Frequently these passions are not only violent but destructive, as though each painting liberated the artist from a private night-mare. His art is full of strange perversities and contradictions, too. all his most successful work seems to contain something of an emotional clash – vulgarity and tenderness, or agony and wit, pathos and satire, aggression and composure. They have some of the sheer inventiveness of Picasso . and the same unresolved tumult.’ (Edwin Mullins, The Human and Divine Predicament, exhibition catalogue, Grosvenor Gallery, London, 1964, unpaginated). By the early 1960s, Souza had achieved both fame and critical acclaim in London. In 1964, a leading cri... Read full biography
