Osian's Auction Catalogue Masterpieces and Museum-Quality III | March 2004

230 MASTERPIECES & MUSEUM-QUALITY III FRANCIS NEWTON SOUZA b . 12 April 1924, Saligao, Goa d . 28 March 2002, New York, U.S.A. Education 1937-9 St. Xavier’s School, Bombay (Expelled after two years) 1940-5 Diploma in Painting, Sir J.J. School of Art, Bombay (Expelled in 1945) 1949-55 Spent a good deal of time at the Central School of Art, London, studying Drawing Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris 1960 Study Tour of Italy on an Italian Government Scholarship, on the recommendation of the British Council Teaching & Infrastructure–building Activities 1945 Joined the Communist Party of India 1947 Founder member, Progressive Artists’ Group 1950 Commissioned to paint a series of large murals for the Indian Students Bureau, London 1955 His work Nirvana of a Maggot , published in London by Stephen Spender 1959 Published his autobiography Words and Lines 1966 Drawings for book Inner Circle , Macmillan, London Solo Exhibitions 1945 Bombay Art Society, Bombay (December) 1949 Paintings , Bombay Art Society Salon, Bombay (23–30 November) 1951 Organised by Mr V.K. Krishna Menon, then High Commissioner, Indian Embassy, London 1955 Gallery One, London 1956 Gallery One, London 1957 Gallery One, London 1959 Gallery One, London 1960 Gallery One, London 1961 Gallery One, London 1962 Kumar Gallery, New Delhi 1963 Taj Art Gallery, Bombay 1966 Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi Grosvenor Gallery, London Guggenheim Foundation, New York 1968 London Arts Gallery, Detroit, USA 1975 Art 38, London 1976 Art 38, London 1977 Commonwealth Artists of Fame , London 1984 Souza’s paintings and drawings in the forties , Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi (20 January–4 February) 1985 Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay 1986 Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi 1987 Paintings , The Gallery, Madras (27 February–5 March) Retrospective, New Delhi & Bombay 1988 Indus Gallery, Karachi 1990 Centre for Contemporary Art, New Delhi 1992 Indus Gallery, Karachi 1993 Souza, 1940s-1990s , Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi L.T.G. Gallery, New Delhi 1995 Chemical Paintings , Little Theatre Group Art Gallery, New Delhi (17 November–9 December) 1996 Souza from the Alkazi Collection , Academy of Fine Arts & Literature, New Delhi Acrylic Paintings and Drawings , L.T.G. Gallery, New Delhi (15 November–8 December) Art Heritage Gallery, New Delhi (1–30 November) 1997 Julian Hartnoll’s Gallery, London (6–24 May) 1998 The Erotic Discipline , The Window, Mumbai Important Paintings from the Artists’ Private Collection , Bose-Pacia Modern Gallery, New York (19 September–7 November) 1999 Kumar Gallery, New Delhi (18–30 October) 2000 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai Kumar Gallery, New Delhi The Demonic Line , Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi 2002 Tribute to F.N. Souza , Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi Sambrani, M. Jakimowicz-Karle & S. Datta. (pp.46 & 71) Kapur, Geeta. When Was Modernism . New Delhi: Tulika 2000. (p.390) Sinha, Gayatri (Ed.). Indian Art: An Overview . New Delhi: Rupa & Co 2003. [Essay by Ranjit Hoskote] (pp.205 & 207) Auction & Exhibition Catalogues Gallery 7. Natraj Sharma . Bombay 1990. [Ex. 6–14 March] Sakshi Gallery. Nataraj Recent Works 1992–94. Bombay 1994. Sakshi Gallery. Nataraj Recent Works 1994–96. Bombay 1996. HEART/Tuli. Intuitive-Logic: The Next Step . New Delhi 1999. (L282) Sakshi Gallery. Nataraj Recent Works 1999 . Mumbai 1999. Delhi Art Gallery. Edge Of The Century . New Delhi 1999. Sakshi Gallery . Embarkations . Mumbai 1999. India Habitat Centre. Kitsch Kitsch Hota Hai . New Delhi 2001. [Ex. Visual Arts Gallery 17–26 March) Osian’s/Tuli. Figurative Non-Figurative Narration. Mumbai 2003. (L206)