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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apr 12, 2017 | Pundole's | Mumbai | The Fine Art Sale | 64 | $****** - ****** | Cityscape |
Works on Paper
34.6 x 25.4 cm (13.63 x 10 in)
Chemical alteration on paper
Signed and dated "Souza 70" upper left
FRANCIS NEWTON SOUZA (1924 - 2002)
Cityscape
Chemical alteration on paper
1970
13 5/8 x 10 in. (34.5 x 25.5 cm.)
Signed and dated "Souza 70" upper left
"Souza believes in the altered image. As early as 1953, he was reworking newspaper images, characteristically raising the eyes of the figure to the forehead. By 1968 he had developed a technique of removing the majority of the given image, over-painting to an extent that there is only a shadow of what has previously been there. Sometimes the images become visceral, sometimes the ordinary turns to the majestic, sometimes the obscene changes to the poetic. As Berger said, "it is an imaginative vision which is truly moving" and in defining what moves him Berger concludes that, "it is the yielding of the hieratic to the banal and vice versa." Souza discusses his view that art is altered energy. "I find something by cleaning off the existing image and making a diametrically opposite one.... Juxtaposition has become an essential element of modern art." When Warhol was employing photographic imagery to influence our"way of seeing" in the 1960s, Souza had already explored its possibilities." (Julian Hartnoll, Francis Newton Souza, exhibition catalogue, Julian Hartnoll Gallery, London, 1997, unpaginated)
