Born in Saligao, Goa in
1924, Souza was expelled for participating in the Quit
India Movement while studying at the Sir J.J. School
of Art in Mumbai. He founded Progressive Artist's Movement
along with S.H. Raza and K.H. Ara, among others, in
1947. Soon after independence, he left for Britain,
and then for New York, where he received the Guggenheim
International Award. His works are in the collections
of the Tate Gallery, London and the National Gallery
of Modern Art, New Delhi. His works were exhibited at
the Gallery Creuze, Paris in 1954, at Arts 38, in London,
in 1975 and 1976, and at the Bose Pacia Modern, in New
York, in 1998.
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