Untitled
oil on paper laid on board, framed
signed and dated 'Ribeiro ‘64’ upper left
31 x 23.5cm

Provenance: This item was donated to an Oxfam shop in southern England in 2023 and is being by them to raise money for the charity.

Born in 1933 into a Catholic family in Bombay, Lancelot Ribeiro spent his childhood between Bombay and Goa. He first came to Britain in 1950 and then settled in London in 1962 with his half-brother, the artist Francis Newton Souza. Over the next sixty years, Ribeiro produced a diverse body of work that included expressionist landscapes exemplified by the present lot painted in 1964. Ribeiro’s architectonic landscapes from this period were characterised by tumbling down buildings rendered in bold black outlines heightened with flashes of colour. During the 1970s and 1980s Ribeiro lectured on Indian art and culture at the Commonwealth Institute and was a founder member of the Indian Painters’ Collective, the multicultural Rainbow Art Group and the Indian Artists UK group. Ribeiro exhibited in mixed and solo shows including the Gardner Arts Centre, Brighton (1973), Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal (1978), Leicestershire Museum of Art and Culture, Leicester (1986) and Camden Art Centre, London (1987). A major retrospective of the artist’s work Restless Ribeiro was held at Asia House, London in 2013 and from 2016-2017, Retracing Ribeiro was a project devised by the British Museum, Burgh House and the V&A that explored the artist’s legacy.