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37 BOOKS, EARLY GALLERY
CATALOGUES AND WRITINGS BY AND
ABOUT F. N. SOUZA
F. N. SOUZA, AN INTRODUCTION
By Edwin Mullins
London: Anthony Blond, 1962
pp. 108 with 66 full-page colour & b&w plates and 24
line drawings
Size: 9 x 8.5 inches
Grey cloth binding with title embossed in black on
cover and spine. Theessay covers 45 pages and there is a
3-page list of collectors at the end.
The first and seminal biography and appreciation of
Souza written soon after he had established himself in
London and written by a close friend and critic.
A good copywithout dustjacket with the cover
unevenly darkened.
WORDS & LINES BY F. N. SOUZA
LONDON: Villiers
1959
pp. 27 [with 18 line drawings in the text] + pp. 12
carrying 23 drawings
EDITION WAS LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES
size: 10 x 7.5 inches
Stiff card with dustjacket which has a tiny tear on front
cover without loss of paper. Paper clip mark on top of
title-page.
F. N. SOUZA: RELIGION AND EROTICA - Early Religious
and Erotic Drawings from the Estate of F. N. Souza
Preface by George Melly
Edition limited to 2000 copies
London:
Barklem.comPrint & Publishing, 2005
pp. 88 with 74 full-page line drawings [3 of them
double-page]
Has a one-page previously unpublished poem by
Souza titled 'Mother of God', biographical notes and
bibliography
Stiff card with dustjacket
Presentation inscriptionby George Melly on title-page
REBEL ARTIST: FRANCIS NEWTON by H. Goetz
The first published critical appreciation of Souza in a
complete issue of "Bulletin of the Baroda State Museum
and Picture Gallery", Vol. IV, Pt I-II (August 1946 to July
1947) edited by H. Goetz and published in Baroda in
1949. Printed at Sadhana Press, Baroda.
8-page essay + 1 plate carrying 3 b&w reproductions
of Souza's works in the Plates section [Boats/ The Blue
Lady/ Bathers].
Hermann Goetz, curator of the Baroda Museum, was
an early admirer of the artist who, at this time, did
not use the surname Souza. Of the 3 Souza works
reproduced in the bulletin, two wereacquired by Goetz
for the gallery [The Blue Lady, an oil, and Bathers, a
watercolour]
The most elusive of all Souza-related printed material
beyond newspaper notices. Souza was 25 at the time of
its publication.
CONDITION: Ex-library softcoverin very good
condition. No stamps except on cover. The frontispiece
is a b & w reproduction of K K Hebbar's oil painting
showing Mahatma Gandhi in his dying moments.
Size: 10 x 7.5 inches
SOUZA 57
Gallery One, London catalogue issued in1957
pp. 20 with 2-page biographical note, 12 full-pageb&w
images of paintings, 1 b&w portrait of Souza
Stapled pink wrappers / 9 x 6 inches
Covers a little soiled
RARE
F. N. SOUZA 1959
Gallery One, London catalogue
pp. 8 with 1-page essay by Nevile Wallis, 4 full-page b&w
imagesofpaintings, 1 b&w portrait of Souza, 1 b&w
photograph of Souza's studio floor
Stapled beige wrappers / 9 x 6 inches
RARE
F N SOUZA
Gallery One, London catalogue
c. 1961
pp. 24 with 11 quotes by Souza, 5 b&w full-page images
ofpaintings, 1 b&w portrait of Souza, 1 double-page
colour spread of painting, 3-page biographical note,
3-page bibliography, 4-page list of Souza collectors.
Stapled green wrappers / 7 x 7 inches
Vertical fold mark in the middle