Evening Sale | New Delhi, Live> Artwork Details > Untitled by F N Souza

and distortions are an expression of Souza's personal and political fears. In this respect it has something in common with Francis Bacon's paintings ... "The post-war angst that had inflicted the whole of Europe and the works of artists like Francis Bacon and T S Eliot would also draw in its fold a painter

Auction 2002 (May)> Artwork Details > Woman and a Bird by Tyeb Mehta

returned to India after a 5 year stint in Europe. It was also later that he adopted the macabre distortionist style of Sir Francis Bacon and the flat

Impressionist and Modern Art Auction> Artwork Details > Cerises dans un compotier (Cherries in a Fruitbowl) by Bernard Buffet

If Francis Bacon was the dominant force in Post War British painting then Bernard Buffet was the French equivalent during the 1950s. With his use of black spiky lines to demarcate form and color and his depictions of everyday scenes he captured the spirit of ration era Paris. He was an inspiration

Auction May 2006> Artwork Details > The Priest by F N Souza

Church and the spiritual authority their leaders claimed to embody. Francis Bacon (1909–1992) whom Souza exhibited with as early as 1954 painted a series ...are of alarming figures screaming and clutching at the arms of their thrones. (Right Francis Bacon Francis Bacon Study after Velazquez I 1950)

Summer Online Auction> Artwork Details > Untitled by F N Souza

In the postwar climate of London artists like Francis Bacon used their art to reflect the brutal reality of a society still reverberating from the war. Souza - whom critics have often likened to Bacon and who was himself reeling from the political atmosphere of a newly independent India - experienced a similar

From Classical to Contemporary> Artwork Details > Head by F N Souza

In the post-war climate of London artists like Francis Bacon used their art to reflect the brutal reality of a society still reverberating from the war. Souza-whom critics have often likened to Bacon and who was himself reeling from the political atmosphere of a newly independent India-experienced

Evening Sale | New Delhi, Live> Artwork Details > Crucifixion by Tyeb Mehta

But for Mehta personally this was "a period of considerable rejuvenation. Among the works of major artists Tyeb was influenced by Francis Bacon whose

Modern Indian Art> Artwork Details > London East End by F N Souza

firmly in the spectrum of post-war artists including Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud who addressed the unease of a society and world in turmoil. The catalogue note captures the essence of Souza's paintings from this period such as the present lot. "Like his contemporary Francis Bacon Francis Newton Souza

Summer Online Auction> Artwork Details > Seated Man in Red (After Titian) by F N Souza

into image.’ - Francis Bacon Some four hundred years after Titian’s Emperor Charles V Francis Newton Souza painted Seated Man in Red. At first glance ...to. Picasso reinterpreted works by painters such as Grünewald Delacroix Manet and Rembrandt. Likewise the masterpiece that stands out in the body of Francis

Winter Live Auction: Indian Art> Artwork Details > Untitled (Head) by F N Souza

Francis Bacon using their art to reflect upon the brutal reality of a society that was still reverberating from the war. Souza who was often likened to Bacon by critics and was himself reeling from the political atmosphere of a newly independent India experienced a similar disillusionment in London when

Evening Sale | New Delhi, Live> Artwork Details > Untitled by F N Souza

to survive and paint. In the climate of 1950s London artists like Francis Bacon used their art to reflect the brutality evident in a society still reverberating from the war. Souza whom critics have often likened to Bacon found a similar and at the same time new direction in this disillusioned

Summer Online Auction: Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art> Artwork Details > Untitled by F N Souza

28). Souza’s ‘Heads’ can be compared to his contemporary Francis Bacon’s portraits for the similarity in their disfiguration of the face and exploration of the grotesque. Aziz Kurtha remarks “It is well known that both Bacon and Souza held the Russian painter Chaim Soutine who lived in Paris

Summer Online Auction> Artwork Details > Reclining Figure with Bull's Head by Tyeb Mehta

discourse of that time and it proved to be a phase of "considerable rejuvenation. Among the works of major artists Tyeb was influenced by Francis Bacon whose

Evening Sale | New Delhi, Live> Artwork Details > Untitled (Figure of a Woman) by Tyeb Mehta

throughout his career. Painted in 1961 during his stay in England influenced perhaps by the grotesque distortions of Francis Bacon's existentialist art

Auction Dec 06> Artwork Details > Untitled by Tyeb Mehta

Tyeb Mehta born in Kapadwanj Gujarat in 1925 is one of India’s most celebrated modern artists. Mehta was deeply influenced by the distortionist style of Francis Bacon such that “Tyeb’s images like Bacon’s are apocalyptic “ says critic Ranjit Hoskote. However Mehta’s figures engage the viewer within