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Francis Newton Souza, Indian 1924-2002, Untitled, Head; Signed and dated "Souza 87" (upper left), Oil on canvas, 64.5 x 46cm. (ARR) Provenance: The property of Dr. Premlata Goel, widow of the distinguished art critic, K.B. Goel; Gifted by Souza to his close friend, the art critic, K.B. Goel (1930 - 2018). Gifted by Souza to K.B Goel in the late1980s. To see other works from the same collection, see previous works at Roseberys and Bonhams, Modern & Contemporary South Asian Art Online, 20th-28th February 2023, lots 1-5. "Souza is famous for his inflammatory treatment of heads. The iconography is morbidly personal, the distortion grotesque to the point of a neurotic edge; the image proper shows mannerisms played to the dark labyrinth of the psyche", K.B. Goel, Art Critic,1990. "I have created a new kind of face... I have drawn the physiognomy way beyond Picasso, in completely new terms..." Artist statement, Yashodhara Dalmia, The Making of Modern Indian Art: The Progressives, New Delhi, 2001, p. 94.