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Artist of modern Indian painting (1924–2002)

Francis Newton Souza (Portuguese: Francisco Victor Newton de Souza; 12 April 1924 – 28 March 2002) was an artist of modern Indian painting, and a founding member of the Bombay Progressive Artists' Group.

His style exhibited both decadence and primitivism.^[2]

Early life and education

Francis Newton Souza was born Francisco Victor Newton de Souza to Goan Catholic parents in the village of Saligão.

After his father and then his elder sister passed away, he and his mother moved to Mumbai in 1929.^[3] Souza's mother remarried, and his half-brother was the painter Lancelot Ribeiro.^[4]

Souza attended St.

Xavier's College in Bombay, but he was expelled in 1939 for drawing obscene graffiti in the restrooms.^[5][6] He then studied at the Sir J. J. School of Art in Bombay but was also expelled from that school in 1945, because of pulling down the Union Jack flag during a scho