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Souza: The Enfant Terrible Souza: The Enfant Terrible F N SOUZA (1924 - 2002)

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F N SOUZA (1924 - 2002)

ASN0027 Auction Type: Silent Bids

Portrait in Blue
Oil on Canvas
Signed & dated 84 upper left
Dimension: 30 x 24 in

€32700 - €43600

Provenance Provenance

Property from the family collection of eminent art critic K.B. Goel (1930 - 2018), who was a great friend of the artist

Literature Literature

The subject of a Souza painting is Souza himself and the expressionist sensibility gives vent to its emotion by spontaneously loaded brushwork. Souza does it with unfettered egomania, almost to the point of being blind to form: and yet there is evidence of rational control. His painting is a site of visual frenzy and yet it is marked by excessive stillness.
– K.B. Goel in the ‘Artscape’ column for The Economic Times, New Delhi