拍品 20
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Francis Newton Souza (1924 - 2002)
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Francis Newton Souza (1924 - 2002)

Untitled (Abstract Portrait)

細節
Francis Newton Souza (1924 - 2002)
Untitled (Abstract Portrait)
signed and dated 'Souza 59' (centre right)
oil on canvas
15¾ x 12 5/8in. (40 x 32cm.)
Painted in 1959
來源
Acquired directly by the present owner's father in the early 1960s.
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拍品專文

Francis Newton Souza frequently masked and disfigured the visages of his subjects manipulating features or eliminating them all together. In this work, Souza preserves his frequented device of the bust (see lot 16) but instead reduces the head to a series of interlocking coloured planes.