F.N. Souza
Oil on canvas (36 x 75 inches)
This powerful cityscape by F.N. Souza exemplifies the artist’s unmistakable visual language, bold, architectural forms rendered with a raw, almost sculptural intensity. The clustered buildings rise like sentinels, their sharp angles and fortress-like facades evoking both medieval European towns and an imagined psychological landscape. Souza’s vigorous line work, earthy palette, and expressive surface textures lend the composition a brooding, introspective character, where structure and emotion coexist in uneasy balance.
Painted during Souza’s mature period, the work reflects his deep engagement with Western art history while retaining a fiercely individual, modernist sensibility. The stark outlines, fractured perspectives, and dramatic contrasts reveal the artist’s preoccupation with power, isolation, and the human condition, recurring themes that define his contribution to international modern art.
This important work has been published in a book by noted art critic Vinod Bhardwaj, a close personal friend of Francis Newton Souza. Vinod Bhardwaj has authored and edited numerous authoritative books for leading collectors, auction houses, and galleries, and his scholarship is widely respected within the Indian and international art community. The inclusion of this painting in his publication further reinforces its art-historical significance and enduring relevance within Souza’s celebrated oeuvre.
Dubai Estimate: $3,000,000 – $4,000,000 USD
Location of item: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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