Irascible son of Saligão must be chuckling....

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Subject: [goa-research-net] Irascible son of Saligão must be chuckling..
(Joseph St. Anne, Mumbai)
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 17:53:21 -0000
Indian art prices go through the roof 

TIMES NEWS NETWORK - Souza (65,000,000.00)

   In one more upward bound, contemporary Indian art notched record 
sales of Rs 55 crore at a Saffronart online auction which concluded 
on Thursday night after three days of frantic bidding from around 
the world. 
   This time, a dramatic painting by Francis Newton Souza was bought 
for Rs 6.5 crore by an NRI from the Far East, becoming the second-
highest Indian contemporary painting after Tyeb Mehta's Mahishasura, 
which holds the record at Rs 6.9 crore. 
   At the auction, eleven paintings sold for over a crore each—four 
Souzas, two Padamsees and two Razas, a Tyeb Mehta, a Husain and a 
Ram Kumar. The star of the show was clearly Francis Newton Souza, 
that famous and irascible son of Saligao, Goa, who is probably 
chuckling with mirth in heaven or wherever it is dead painters who 
poke fun at the religious establishment go. His massive 6x4 foot 
work, Lovers, the largest Souza to ever come up for auction, was 
painted in 1955, during his most intense and exploratory period as 
an artist. It was displayed at the Zimmerli Museum in Rutgers 
University in New Jersey and was part of a famous private collection 
in the US. "Souza was obsessed with church and dogma, and this 
painting in some ways is very shocking—it has a male figure in a red 
cardinal kind of robe with a woman in the garden,'' says Dinesh 
Vazirani of Saffronart. 
   Souza's Crucifixion, a powerful 1961 painting, sold for Rs 2.7 
crore. Christ and his Passion were among his favourite themes, and 
his last work before he died was a Christ. Souza was buried on 
Easter Sunday of 2002 at the Sewri Cemetery in Mumbai. 
   Among the surprises were a small paperwork by Jogen Choudhury (In 
Search of a Dream) which sold for Rs 83 lakh and a tempera by Ganesh 
Pyne for Rs 76 lakh. Among the younger artists, paintings by 
Chittrovanu Mazumdar and Shibu Natesan sold for Rs 37 lakh each. 








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