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

238 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, Studied Drawing Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts (Paris) 1960 Study Tour of Italy on an Italian Government Scholarship, on the recommendation of the British Council Select Teaching and 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 Select 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) FRANCIS NEWTON SOUZA b .12 April 1924 Saligao, Goa d .28 March 2002 New York, U.S.A. Education Largely self-taught Apprenticed to Mohammad Alam in Bombay to learn the rudiments of art 1910 VDJ Technical Institute, Lahore Select Solo Exhibitions 1924 British Empire Exhibition, London 1926 Punjab Fine Arts Society, Calcutta (Inaugural Exhibition) 1950 Calcutta New Delhi Amritsar 1957 Moscow, USSR Leningrad, USSR Budapest, Hungary Select Awards and Honours 1917 First Prize (Rs. 500), Simla Fine Art Society 1924 After the Bath, Second Prize (800 Pounds), British Empire Exhibition, London 1952 Nominated Member of the Legislative Council, Punjab 1952 Member of the Punjab Legislative Council 1953 President of India’s Gold Medal, Silver Jubilee Exhibition of the Indian Academy of Fine Arts, Amritsar Gold Medal, Calcutta Art Society 1956 Member of General Council, Lalit Kala Akademi Select Collections ❖ Osian’s Archive and Library Collection SARDAR GANDHA THAKUR SINGH b. 15 September 1899 Verka, Amritsar, Punjab d. 2 February 1976