'None of these landscapes are of actual places but a sort of collective experience ... My first influences ... were the churches and statuary of the Catholic church in Goa along with the symbolic ritual that went with it'.
Lancelot Ribeiro
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We are back up and running with the Friday Find, after showing last week at Art Basel Qatar as well as at the India Art Fair. Long, busy week, but good to see lots of old friends.
This week we have a 1960s painting by Lancelot Ribeiro, a significant modernist painter whose estate the gallery has represented since 2015.
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Ribeiro in Mimbao, 1961 (image courtesy Ribeiro estate) -
Ribeiro had a significant career in India with sell-out exhibitions in Mumbai, visiting London in the early 1950s and studying at Saint Martin's School of Art, before returning to India. He settled permanently in the UK in 1962.
We began representation of the artist's estate over 10 years ago, following his 2014 retrospective at Asia House in London. That year we organised a touring exhibition of work that went to Sunaparanta Goa Centre for the Arts as well as to Saffronart in Mumbai and New Delhi. We were fortunate enough to be able to exhibit the major painting Urban Landscape painted in Mumbai before he left for Britain, from the Tata Corporate collection.
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Significant other exhibitions organised by the gallery include a review show of the Indian Artists' Collectives of the 1970s-90s, as well as shows at Burgh House and India Art Fair.
His work is now in the collection of several international museum collections, including Tate Britain, KNMA, the V&A Museum, Ben Uri Gallery and Leicester Museum & Art Gallery.
On Friday 20 February the V&A Museum in London will hold a symposium titled Lancelot Ribeiro: A Risen Voice. Follow this link for more details and to book tickets.
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