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Christie's Sets New Auction Record For Francis Newton Souza's Birth at $4million
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The highlight of the sale was Francis Newton Souza’s (1924-2002) epic work entitled Birth which held the previous world auction record price for a work by the artist - set at Christie’s in 2008 when it sold for $2.5 million (£1.3 million). Yesterday, this record was broken by an increase of 63%, establishing the new world auction record for the artist at $4,085,000.
The highlight of the sale was Francis Newton Souza’s (1924-2002) epic work entitled Birth which held the previous world auction record price for a work by the artist - set at Christie’s in 2008 when it sold for $2.5 million (£1.3 million). Yesterday, this record was broken by an increase of 63%, establishing the new world auction record for the artist at $4,085,000.
This work by Souza is also the world auction record for the category, meaning the most expensive work sold at any South Asian Art auction.
Souza painted the masterpiece in 1955, the same year of his seminal solo exhibition at Gallery One in London. This monumental painting represents the pinnacle of all the artist's paintings of the 1950s.
The painting comprises all the subjects to be found in Souza’s early practice; the pregnant outstretched nude with hairpins, the autobiographical man in priest’s tunic, a still life on the window ledge and beyond the window, a townscape with corniced buildings and tall steeples (estimate: $2.2-2.8 million).
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