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Classification:

Painting

Materials:

Oil, Board

Dimensions:

59 x 74.5 cm

Accession Number:

ROTMG : OP.1977.149

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1965

Ownership history:

Bequeathed by Dr Harold Paine Widdup (1899-1962) to the Contemporary Art Society; presented to Clifton Park Museum, Rotherham, 1965
Souza was born in Saligao, Goa of Asian descent. He studied at the Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy School of Art in Mumbai, but was suspended in 1945 (before The Partition of India) because of his support for the Quit India Movement which called for Indian independence from Britain. Souza was a founding member of the Progressive Artists' Group of Bombay. He was the first post-independence Indian artist to achieve recognition in the Europe and the USA. Red Houses (1957) is an abstract work painted at a time when much of Souza's work had been figurative and often with a religious theme.

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