FRANCIS NEWTON SOUZA (1924-2002) Mother and Child signed and...

Estimate

£4,000 - £6,000

FRANCIS NEWTON SOUZA (1924-2002) Mother and Child signed and dated 1960 upper right, pen and ink on paper, 42cm x 27cm

Provenance: Westvale, Nailwell, Bath. The former home of Baron and Lady Craigmyle.

Francis Newton Souza was born in Goa, India, in 1924, and would go on to become one of India’s most influential Modern painters. His painting Birth (1955) depicting his mistress Liselotte posing naked while pregnant with their first daughter Keren, set a world auction record in 2008 for the most expensive "Indian" painting sold till then when it was purchased by Tina Ambani for US$2.5 million at a Christie's auction. In 2015, the painting Birth was resold to Kiran Nadar at Christie's in New York, fetching more than US$4 million