

PROPERTY FROM A GENTLEMAN, MUMBAI
Edwin Mullins compared Souza to Pablo Picasso stating, 'with his finest paintings …the concentrated passion with which they were created may seem to burn over the canvas, yet the nature of the passion is less easy to place. They are full of apparent contradictions: agony wit, pathos and satire, aggression and pity. Their impact is certain but few people are able to explain what has hit them. Like Picasso, too, his interventions have tended to be thought outrageous, because the imagination that created them was discovering something about the visual world which no one as yet understood or which everyone had forgotten.’ (E. Mullins, F. N. Souza, Anthony Blond, London, 1962, p. 37).