Source: GoanVoice UK Full text and some interesting photos at: http://www.goanvoice.org.uk/gvuk_files/F_N_Souza.pdf A morning with F N Souza's daughters by Selma Carvalho
"As I turn the corner into the leafy suburb of Belsize Square and walk past the quiet of St. Peter’s Church, I hold my breath. Row upon row of neatly tailored period houses stand to attention on either side of a narrow, well-disciplined road. I can’t see protruding flower-beds, tangled bushes, creeping vines, restored pubs or any hint of disorderly Bohemian irreverence, which might have attracted Francis Newton Souza. And yet, this is where the anarchist of the art world, F N Souza and Liselotte de Kristian spent much of the fifties. I glance up and see Anya, Souza’s youngest daughter by Liselotte waving to me. Francesca, his second daughter by Liselotte joins us. The apartment has an old-world East European feel to it; walls bear the brunt of photographs creeping like vines into every available space. A pair of ‘Liselotte’ paintings hang on the walls; this is Souza at his most vulnerable, naked self. Smooth, clean lines, no distortion of body parts, no disfigurement of the face, just one line joining another, seamlessly recreating the woman he loved onto canvas. There is something cherubic about Anya. Francesca has here black hair coiffed back and her beautiful cheekbones are slightly flushed. Somewhere in these women, I can detect steely Konkan determination mixed with the courage of the East European Jew. Selma Carvalho ‚My mother used to have her Progressive League meetings here,‛ Anya says. ‚A sort of meeting-up of old-world socialists,‛ Francesca adds."
