- 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. Grey cloth binding with title embossed in black on cover and spine.
No dustjacket.
- WORDS & LINES BY F. N. SOUZA
New Delhi: Nitin Bhayana Publishing, 2000
[Originally published in London in 1959]
With a 2-page Foreword written for this 2nd edition by Souza, dated New York, 1997, and using some colourful expressions.
pp. 27 [with 18 line drawings in the text] + pp. 12 carrying 23 drawings.
Stiff card with dustjacket.
- F.N.SOUZA
Gallery One, London catalogue
November-December 1962
Pp. 20 with 6 b&w illustrations, 3 colour tipped-in plates
Includes 1-page Introduction by Andrew Sinclair, biographical note, selected bibliography and list of Souza collectors
- FRANCIS NEWTON SOUZA
Catalogue of show at Julian Hartnoll's Gallery, London/ 6-24 May 1997
Large triple-turned folder, itssix sides carrying 18 paintings by Souza [2 full-page] and 3 photographs of Souza, including one with Queen Elizabeth II. With an essay by Julian Hartnoll and a biographical chronology.
- SOUZA IN THE FORTIES - A rare retrospective
Exhibition of the paintings and drawings done by Francis Newton Souza during the forties
New Delhi: Dhoomi Mal Gallery
pp. 20 including covers which has 57 b&w images of paintings.
Text has a self-portrait by Souza dated 1982
- SOUZA 1940'S -1990'S
8-page stapled brochure issued by Dhoomi Mal Gallery, New Delhi, in 1993
9 colour images, 3 b&w images, portrait
2 essays by Souza - MY CREDO IN ART and FROM TIME TO TIME.
Essay REBEL WITHOUT A PAUSE by Srimati Lal
- IDA KAR: PORTRAITS OF F. N. SOUZA
An extremely scarce title published 2011.
10 x 10 inches hardback, mint condition, printed on fine glazed paper
pp. 47 with 6 full-page b&w photographs of Souza PLUS one full-page contact sheet carrying 9 images of Souza, taken between 1957 and 1961, by Ida Kar. She was professional photographer and wife of Victor Musgrave, owner of Gallery One which patronized Souza.
2-page note by Conor Macklin
18-page essay titled NIRVANA IN LONDON: THE COINCIDING WORLDS OF F. N. SOUZA AND IDA KAR with notes, 1 full-page sketch and 9 small b&w photographs in text. 1-page essay by Souza TALKING ABOUT LONDON. 3
pages carrying three 1950s-60s Press cuttings of reviews of Souza's works
- A LANGUAGE IN COMMON
A special number of The Times Literary Supplement reprinted for the National Council of Teachers of English/ A 91-page stapled booklet with cover drawing by F. N. Souza
Size: 8.5 x 5.5 inches
- Rare journal with short story byF.N.SOUZA
A 1960 bilingual journal TWO CITIES [English & French] with a 4-page short story by FRANCIS SOUZA titled "The Man Born Blind" with full-page line drawing by Souza to accompany it.
- FRANCIS NEWTON SOUZA - Selected works from 1950-1999
New Delhi: Kumar Gallery, pp. 32 with 34 colour images, 2000, 4-page essay by Edwin Mullins from an old Kumar Gallery catalogue
- 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.com Print & 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 dust jacket
- SPRINGTIME 3
An Anthology of Prose and Poetry, published in London by Peter Owen Carries a 4-page story titled 'LAZARUS' by F. N. SOUZA
A 128-page anthology issued in hardback which also carries contributions by Nissim Ezekiel, Mervyn Peake, Muriel Spark, Peter Levi and P. Lal
No date [c. 1960]
Softcover.
- ENCOUNTER
February 1955 issue of magazine edited by Stephen Spender and published in London
Has the famous, much-quoted and seminal essay by F. N. SOUZA titled 'NIRVANA OF A MAGGOT'.
The 7-page essay has 5 illustrations by Souza.
- ENCOUNTER
October 1962 issue of magazine edited by Stephen Spender and publishedin London.
Has 5 illustrations by F. N. SOUZA to go with Aldous Huxley's essay 'Unpainted Landscapes'
- THE STUDIO
November 1961 issue of magazine published from London.
Has a 4-page essay on F. N. SOUZA titled THE IMAGE AND SOUZA by G. M. Butcher with reproductions of 5 paintings by Souza, including one full-page in colour [PART OF A BOUND RUN]
- STUDIO INTERNATIONAL
April 1964 issue of magazine published in London. Has a 6-page essay titled F. N. SOUZA: THE HUMAN AND THE DIVINE by Mervyn Levy With 8 illustrations. Six of these are photographs of Souza explaining his technique of painting large-scale works with the help of a specially-designed projector. [PART OF A BOUND RUN]
-WORKS ON PAPER BY FRANCIS NEWTON SOUZA
Auction catalogue of Bonhams London for sale on 3 May 2006
pp. 50 with 40 lots, each illustrated and with a full-page b&w photograph of Souza standing in his studio and a one-page note. A scarce cataloguedevoted entirely to Souza's work. He is the only Indian artist to whom a western auction house devoted an entire catalogue apart from a dedicated auction on his works by Christies and Saffronart. Card covers
- THE DEMONIC LINE
An Exhibition of Drawings, 1940-1964 by Francis Newton Souza.
Curated by Yashodhara Dalmia. Issued by Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi, for exhibition held in December 2000-January 2001. pp. 60 .
4-page essay by Yashodhara Dalmia titled 'The Underbelly of Existence'
1-page essay by Souza written in 1949. 50 full-page drawings, 6 drawings in text, one photograph of Souza and reproduction of one letter by him.
Soft cover
- INNER CIRCLE
By Jerzy Peterkiewicz [a novel]
Illustrated byF. N. SOUZA
London: Panther, 1968 [Originally published by Macmillan in 1966]. pp. 202 + 27 full-page line drawings by Souza
Size: 7 x 4.5 inches.
PAPERBACK with cover painting by Alan Aldridge
- BLACK ORPHEUS
June 1960 issueof a journal of African and Afro-American literature, published by the Ministry of Education, Ibadan, Nigeria.
Of its three editors, one was Wole Soyinka, Nobel Laureate. Has a 2-page essay titled SOUZA by Omidiji Aragbabalu with 8 full-page drawings by Souza [pp. 16-21/ 49-52]
- FRANCIS NEWTON SOUZA - Important Paintings from the Artist???s Private Collection
Issued by Bose Pacia Modern, New York, for exhibition held in September-November 1998.
pp. 16 including cover with 9 full-page paintings in colour and 6 small ones in colour
One-page unsigned essay.
Softcover
- SOUZA - CITY OF WOMEN
Essays by Vinod Bhardwaj and Brij Sharma
Exhibition catalogue of Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi.pp. 44
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