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Lot 41
F.N. Souza (1924 - 2002)
Estimate : 75,00,000 - 95,00,000

This lot presents a painting by Souza in a style that marks a turning point in his early career as well as in Indian Modern Art, with particular relevance to Bombay. The painting represents a female nude (a subject that would go on to be one of Souza’s main preoccupations) standing in a seductive posture with her body and features reminiscent of Indian temple sculpture. Rendered using heavy black lines and a seeming disarray of colours, it evinces Souza’s growing concerns with the element of “form” at the time (he had just created the Progressive Artists’ Group the previous year along with S.H. Raza and K.H. Ara) and a desire to create his own style in the Modernist idiom. Indeed, Souza’s rendering of this painting comes after a period when the artist created landscapes of his hometown, Goa, and was affected by the ideals of the Communist Party of which he was a member. It is highly reflective of the influence which he drew from an exhibition of Indian art he visited in Delhi in 1948 along with the artist M.F. Husain, and was probably exhibited in one of the Progressive Artists’ Group exhibitions the following year. 

Hammer Price :
70,00,000
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70,00,000
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This lot presents a painting by Souza in a style that marks a turning point in his early career as well as in Indian Modern Art, with particular relevance to Bombay. The painting represents a female nude (a subject that would go on to be one of Souza’s main preoccupations) standing in a seductive posture with her body and features reminiscent of Indian temple sculpture. Rendered using heavy black lines and a seeming disarray of colours, it evinces Souza’s growing concerns with the element of “form” at the time (he had just created the Progressive Artists’ Group the previous year along with S.H. Raza and K.H. Ara) and a desire to create his own style in the Modernist idiom. Indeed, Souza’s rendering of this painting comes after a period when the artist created landscapes of his hometown, Goa, and was affected by the ideals of the Communist Party of which he was a member. It is highly reflective of the influence which he drew from an exhibition of Indian art he visited in Delhi in 1948 along with the artist M.F. Husain, and was probably exhibited in one of the Progressive Artists’ Group exhibitions the following year. 

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