Eugene Correia<https://www.facebook.com/eugene.correia.3?hc_location=stream> Given below is the last two paras of a column by Kishwar Desai, author of Sea of Innocence, based on the Scarlett murder case in Goa, in an Indian newspaper today. She touches on Lancelot Rebeiro's work. Lancelot was half-brother of Francis Newton D'Souza, the acclaimed Goan painter/writer.
"........Even in the UK we are wondering whether the easy access to pornography on the Internet could be one of the reasons? B ut let's move on to more pleasant things. We attended a wonderful restrospective of artist Lance Robeiro, J.N. Souza's brother at the resplendent Asia House. And what an amazing exhibition it was. It was obvious that the artist deserved much more recognition during his lifetime than he had ever got. His daughter Marsha Rebeiro had put the exhibition together with the tireless Betty Yao, who is also a member of the Pan Asian Women's Association. Rebeiro was born in Bombay, but in his early paintings the jewellike colours of the churches and houses belong obviously to his original Goan heritage. Even more interesting was the fact that he had painted in so many different styles in his lifetime that it looked almost like the exhibition was of four or five different artists and not just a single one. Now one hopes that Rebiero's work will return to India, especially to Goa. Wouldn't it be wonderful to have these paintings hung -however briefly -in the home and the place where he was born?" Eugene