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FRANCIS NEWTON SOUZA (1924-2002)
Lot 31 PROPERTY FROM THE FAMILY OF FRANCIS NEWTON SOUZA

FRANCIS NEWTON SOUZA (1924-2002)

Untitled (TIME Portraits)

Closed9 June 2011

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GBP 10,000

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FRANCIS NEWTON SOUZA (1924-2002)
Untitled (TIME Portraits)
signed and dated 'Souza 1970' (upper left)
chemical alteration and mixed media on printed magazine paper
10 7/8 x 8 1/8 in. (27.8 x 20.8 cm.); 10 7/8 x 8¼ in. (27.8 x 21.1 cm.) each
Executed in 1970
Group of two works on paper (2)

Specialist note

'People are anxious to see anyone who has made himself famous' Schopenhauer said, but today everyone can be famous at least for a one minute exposure on [the] mass-media of television. This is not the age of the common man, but the common celebrity.
(F. N. Souza, extract from a letter to Liselotte Souza [133], 1974, unpaginated; courtesy the F. N. Souza Family Archive)