Osian's Auction Catalogue Indian Modern and Contemporary Art | January 2008

265 Select Biographies Francis Newton Souza b.12 April 1924 Saligao, Goa d.28 March 2002 New York, USA Education 1940-45 Diploma (Painting), Sir J. J. School of Art, Bombay (Expelled in 1945) 1949-55 Studied Drawing at the Central School of Art, London, UK Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France 1960 Study Tour of Italy on an Italian Govt. Scholarship, on the Recommendation of the British Council Select Solo Exhibitions 1945 BAS, Bombay (December) 1948 BAS Salon, Bombay (23-30 November) 1951 India House, Indian High Commission, London, UK 1952 Galerie St. Placide, Paris, France 1954 Galerie R. Creuze, Paris, France Galerie Pallette, Zurich, Switzerland 1955-61 Gallery One, London, UK 1962 Kumar Gallery, New Delhi and Calcutta Edmonton Gallery, Edmonton, Canada Stone Gallery, London, UK 1963 Taj Art Gallery, Bombay 1965 Bombay 1966 Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi Black Paintings, Grosvenor Gallery, London, UK Guggenheim Foundation, New York, USA 1968 London Arts Gallery, Detroit, USA 1975,76 Art 38, London, UK 1983 Dhoomi Mal Gallery, New Delhi 1985 Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay (6-18 March) 1986 Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi 1987 Art Heritage (New Delhi); JAG, Bombay (28 January - 3 February) Paintings, The Gallery, Madras (27 February-5 March) 1988 Indus Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan 1990 Centre for Contemporary Art, New Delhi 1992 Indus Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan 1993 Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi LTG Gallery, New Delhi 1994 Indus Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan 1995 LTG Art Gallery, New Delhi (17 November-9 December) 1996 Art Heritage, New Delhi (1-30 November); LTG Gallery, New Delhi (15 November-8 December) 1997 Julian Hartnoll’s Gallery, London, UK (6-24 May) 1998 Apparao Galleries, Chennai (16-28 July); Bose Pacia Modern Gallery, New York (19 September-7 November); The Window, Mumbai (12-24 November) 1999 Kumar Gallery, New Delhi (18-30 October) 2000-01 Galerie 88, Kolkata (12 March-2 April) 2001 DAG,New Delhi (18 December-13 January); Kumar Gallery, New Delhi (9-21 October) 2003 Tribute to Francis Newton Souza, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi (7 February-8 March); Saffronart Gallery, Mumbai (30 October-15 November) F N Souza-A Definitive Retrospect, Gallery Artsindia, New York, USA (14 November-7 December) 2005 Kumar Gallery, New Delhi (14-22 January); Grosvenor Gallery & Saffronart, London, UK (14 November) Select Awards and Honours 1947 Award from BAS, Bombay 1957 Prize in Junior Section, John Moores Liverpool Exhibition, UK 1958 One of Five Painters Selected To Represent Great Britain in the Guggenheim International Award 1960 Awarded Arts Scholarship by the Government of Italy Select Collections Aziz Kurta I Baroda Museum and Picture Gallery I Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi I Ebrahim Alkazi Collection I Grosvenor Gallery, London Jehangir Nicholson Museum Collection I Jane and Kito de Boer, Dubai I Kito and Jane De Boer Collection I NGMA, New Delhi I Masanori Fukuoka and Glenbarra Museum, Japan I Methodist Church Council, New College, Oxford I National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi I The Osian’s - Archive and Library Collection I Nitin Bhayana, New Delhi I The National Gallery of Art, Melbourne I The Tate Gallery, London I The Trustees of The Victoria and Albert Museum I Wakefield City Art Gallery, New Delhi I