Osian's Auction Catalogue Creative India Series 1 Bengal | December 2011

Creative India BENGAL | Terms & Conditions 319 318 Born: 12 April 1924, Saligao, Goa Died: 28 March 2002, NewYork, U.S.A. Education 1937-9 St. Xavier’s School, Bombay (Expelled after two years) 1940-45 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 at Ecole Nationale des Beaux- Arts (Paris) 1960 Study Tour of Italy on an Italian Government Scholarship, on the recommendation of the British Council Select Awards and Honours 1945 Joined the Communist Party of India 1947 Founder member, Progressive Artists’ Group 1947 Bombay Art Society Award 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 1957 Prize in Junior Section, John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 1958 One of five painters selected to represent Great Britain in the Guggenheim International Award 1959 Published his autobiography ‘Words and Lines’ 1962 Souza - a book on the artist brought out by a London publisher with text by the English art critic Edward Mullins 1962 Exhibits at the opening of the Commonwealth Institute, 7 November 1962, opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth 1963 Short Film on the artist by Sukhdev Listed in Who’s Who International and Art and Antiques 1966 Drawings for book Inner Circle, Macmillan, London Select Solo Exhibitions 1945 Bombay Art Society, Bombay (December) 1949 Paintings, Bombay Art Society Salon, Bombay 1951 Organised by Mr V.K. Krishna Menon, then High Commissioner, Indian Embassy, London 1955-61 Gallery One, London 1962 Kumar Gallery, New Delhi 1963 Taj Art Gallery, Bombay 1966 Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi Grosvenor Gallery, London Francis Newton Souza Guggenheim Foundation, NewYork 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 1985 Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay 1986 Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi 1987 Paintings, The Gallery, Madras 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 1995 Chemical Paintings, Little Theatre Group Art Gallery, New Delhi 1996 Souza from the Alkazi Collection, Art Heritage Gallery, New Delhi 1997 Julian Hartnoll’s Gallery, London 1998 The Erotic Discipline, The Window, Mumbai Important Paintings from the Artists’ Private Collection, Bose-Pacia Modern Gallery, NewYork 1999 Kumar Gallery, New Delhi 2000 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai Kumar Gallery, New Delhi 2001 The Demonic Line: An Exhibition of drawings 1940-1964 by Francis Newton Souza, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi 2001 Rare works 1965-2001, Galerie 88, Calcutta 2001 F N Souza and Baiju Parthan: Los Angeles, Saffronart, Mumbai and Apparao Galleries, Chennai 2003 Tribute to F.N. Souza 1924 - 2002, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi 2003 F.N Souza: A Definitive Retrospective, Gallery Artsindia, NewYork 2005 Francis Newton Souza, Saffronart, NewYork and Grosvenor Gallery, London Select Group Exhibitions 1964 Drawings, Delacroix to Souza, Grosvenor Gallery, London, UK 1977 Commonwealth Artists of Fame, London, UK 1983 Paintings and Drawings of the 1940s, Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi 1985 Exhibition of the Collection of Richardson Hindustan Company, organized by Mr. Gurcharan Das; JAG, Bombay 2001 Baiju Parthan F.N. Souza, organized Saffronart & Apparao Galleries (Chennai), Seven Degrees, Laguna Beach & Los Angeles, USA 2002 Souza and Friends- Paintings and Drawings from the Masters of Indian Modernism, Grosvenor Gallery, London, UK