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Saffronart, Grosvenor Gallery and Sunaparanta are delighted to announce a landmark exhibition of works by Francis Newton Souza (1924-2002) from the 1940s to the 1950s. The exhibition will be taking place simultaneously across the three galleries; Grosvenor Gallery in London (14 December 2018 - 25 January 2019),Sunaparanta in Panjim Goa (17 December 2018 - 30 January 2019), and Saffronart in New Delhi (19 December 2018 - 18 January 2019). The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue and informative text about this little known but very significant period of Souza's early artistic career.
Francis Newton Souza was born in Saligao, Goa and joined the J.J. School of Art in 1940 after being expelled from St Xavier's College for truancy and doing pornographic drawings in the toilets. He did not last long at the J.J. School of Art either and was again expelled in 1945 by Charles Gerrard the British principal, as Souza and his friends had taken down the Union Jack and started a riot. By then Souza was a member of the Quit India Movement and about to join the banned communist party. The movement was launched by Mahatma Gandhi for Satyagraha (Independence).The movement was accompanied by a mass protest on non-violent lines, in which Gandh
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F. N. Souza
Francis Newton Souza (1924-2002) was born in a Portuguese colony in Saligao, Goa. As a young child, his Catholic mother moved them to Bombay where he studied at St Xavier’s High School. There, he formed an interest in drawing and studying imported European prints. However, early on it became apparent that he was rather rebellious, later causing him to be regarded as the ‘enfant terrible’ of the emerging Indian art scene of the 1950s and 1960s. According to critic W. G. Archer in 1965, the premature death of his father, his experience of the Portuguese presence in Goa, and an attack of smallpox, gave Souza ‘a sense of life as cruel, violent, and unjust.’ These themes, as well as his issues with authority figures are present in his art throughout his career.
Souza studied at the J.J. School of Art but was expelled in 1945 for participating in left wing political activities, notably the Quit India Movement. He emerged as an artist-activist, and in 1947, co-founded the revolutionary Bombay Progressive Artists’ Group along with M.F. Husain, S.H. Raza, and others. Together, the PAG advocated a forceful modernism which Souza believed would go beyond the confines of nationalistic art.
Souza moved to London in 1949 for creative freedom and international recognition. Afte
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