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RECORD SALE FOR SOUZA'S HOUSES IN HAMPSTEAD
The Free Press Journal
|October 03, 2025
Goan artist Francis Newton Souza has set a new art world auction record with his landscape ‘Houses in Hampstead’ fetching over USD 7.5 million at a Sotheby's auction in London, nearly seven times its guide price.
The ‘Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art’ auction on Tuesday also saw a second painting by the founding member of the Bombay Progressive Artists’ Group go under the hammer for five times the estimated price, as ‘Emperor’ sold for USD 6.9 million.
This story is from the October 03, 2025 edition of The Free Press Journal.
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