FRANCIS NEWTON SOUZA (1924-2002)

Lot 684
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Lot 684 | FRANCIS NEWTON SOUZA (1924-2002)
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FRANCIS NEWTON SOUZA (1924-2002)

The Naked Family (Bombay Beggars)

signed and dated 'Souza 1944' and titled 'The Naked Family' (lower left); further inscribed and dated 'BOMBAY BEGGERS [sic] / 1944' (on the reverse)

watercolor on paper

20 ¼ x 13 3⁄8 in. (51.4 x 34 cm.) image; 22 x 15 in. (55.9 x 38.1 cm.) sheet

Executed in 1944





Provenance

The Collection of Chester and Davida Herwitz

Sotheby's New York, 5 December 2000, lot 174

Acquired from the above by the present owner



Literature

Souza in the Forties, exhibition catalogue, New Delhi, 1983, inside back cover (illustrated)

R. Rangarajan, 'A Contemporary Canvas', India Abroad, 5 July 2002, p. M9 (illustrated)

Modern Indian Works on Paper, Selections from a Private Collection, exhibition catalogue, Rutgers, 2006, p. 30 (illustrated)

T. Sears ed., Paper Trails: Works on Paper from the Gaur Collection, Ahmedabad, 2022, p. 193 (illustrated)



Exhibited

New Delhi, Dhoomimal Gallery, Souza in the Forties, 1983

Athens, Georgia Museum of Art, Modern Indian Works on Paper, Selections from a Private Collection, 2006

Philadelphia, Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Modern Indian Works on Paper, Selections from a Private Collection, 2007

Grinnell, Grinnell College Museum of Art, Paper Trails: Works on Paper from the Gaur Collection, 27 September - 10 December 2022
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