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拍品 1 We are proud to present a selection of works on paper from the Francis Newton Souza Family Collection, following last June's groundbreaking Estate sale. This sale promises to be an eye-opener once again, demonstrating his facility as a draftsman and providing extraordinary insight into his creative process and artistic techniques. We discover sequences of drawings like frames in a film strip, see him sketching the composition for a canvas, reflecting on old masters, chemically manipulating magazine pages and transmogrifying them into new images, not with a pen but by using a solvent. Nowhere is his visual imagination more apparent and tangible than on paper.
After his death in 2002, a pair of panelled glass French doors were preserved in his New York apartment. They opened to the bedroom and Souza covered the panes with drawings to form a screen, replacing the view through the glass with a vivid mosaic of heads and figures. These doors do not separate the private sphere, but extend it into a sphere of artistic imagination - more is attached to the hinges than just doors. To anyone who has ever spent time with Souza in this apartment, these doors are a unique centrepiece and one of the most unusual elements to appear at auction--a historic installation from the artist's studio and living space.
In addition to Souza, the sale includes a number of outstanding works by other modern and contemporary masters, such as Tyeb Mehta, Vasudeo Gaitonde and Atul Dodiya, to name just a few. We invite you to discover these treasures on the following pages - beyond the painted doors.
Hugo Weihe
International Director Asian Art
PROPERTY FROM THE FAMILY OF FRANCIS NEWTON SOUZA
After his death in 2002, a pair of panelled glass French doors were preserved in his New York apartment. They opened to the bedroom and Souza covered the panes with drawings to form a screen, replacing the view through the glass with a vivid mosaic of heads and figures. These doors do not separate the private sphere, but extend it into a sphere of artistic imagination - more is attached to the hinges than just doors. To anyone who has ever spent time with Souza in this apartment, these doors are a unique centrepiece and one of the most unusual elements to appear at auction--a historic installation from the artist's studio and living space.
In addition to Souza, the sale includes a number of outstanding works by other modern and contemporary masters, such as Tyeb Mehta, Vasudeo Gaitonde and Atul Dodiya, to name just a few. We invite you to discover these treasures on the following pages - beyond the painted doors.
Hugo Weihe
International Director Asian Art
PROPERTY FROM THE FAMILY OF FRANCIS NEWTON SOUZA
FRANCIS NEWTON SOUZA (1924-2002)
Untitled (Scenes from Goa)
已結束2011年6月9日
成交價
GBP 5,000