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Saffronart | Evening Sale
PROPERTY OF A DISTINGUISHED LADY,
NEW DELHI
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F N SOUZA
(1924 ‒ 2002)
Untitled
Signed and dated ‘Souza 1943’
(upper right); inscribed ‘F.N. SOUZA
1943’ (on the reverse)
1943
Watercolour, pen and ink on paper
20 x 13.5 in (51 x 34 cm)
Rs 25,00,000 ‒ 35,00,000
$ 37,880 ‒ 53,035
Souza made a few striking water colour paintings of Goan harbours in 1943/44
when he was barely 20 years old. These paintings are marked by a deliberately
naive style, displaying Souza’s extraordinary facility to experiment and develop
new pictorial styles from an early age, markedly different from the distorted
figures and thick, cross-hatched works for which he later gained fame.
F N Souza,
Marmagoa Harbour
, 1944
Saffronart, Mumbai, 11 September 2013, lot 3
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