Toilet

Details

FRANCIS NEWTON SOUZA (1924-2002)
Toilet
signed and dated 'Souza 65' (lower right)
gouache on paper
Executed in 1965
9 5/8 x 6 5/8 in. (24.4 x 16.8 cm.)

Provenance

Formerly from the Collection of George M. Butcher who acquired the work directly from the artist in the 1970s
Acquired from the above by the present owner in the 1980s

Literature

Bazgasht: Traditional Methods and Modern Practices, The Revival of Miniature Paintings from the Sub-Continent, exhibition catalogue, Mississauga, 2009, p. 31 (illustrated)

Exhibited

Ottawa, Museum of Civilization, India: The Living Arts, May 2000 - February 2001
Mississauga, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Bazgasht: Traditional Methods and Modern Practices, The Revival of Miniature Paintings from the Sub-Continent, 2009

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Lot Essay

While in Bombay, Souza would invite Mohan Sharma, a young man from Jaipur who painted miniatures, to work with him on his drawings for five months. Souza was impressed with Sharma's precise brushstrokes and very fine lines. Inspired by his work, Souza reinterprets a popular subject in classical Indian painting of female attendants waiting on a young lady holding a mirror. Souza makes the work his own by replacing the heads of the female attendants and lover in the window above with references of his past renderings of heads.

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