Early Life and Education
Born in village of Saligao, Goa to Roman Catholic parents, he lost his father when he was three months old. When he survived an attack of small-pox, which left him scarred, his grateful mother named him Francis after the patron saint of Goa, St Francis Xavier. His mother was a seamstress and one of Souza's better-known paintings was that of a sewing machine. He attended St. Xavier's College in Bombay, but was expelled for drawing graffiti in the loo. He claimed he was only correcting the original graffiti because it was so bad but the priests didn't buy that. He studied at the India's premier art school, Sir J. J. School of Art, but was suspended in 1945 because of his support for the Quit India Movement.
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