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Lancelot Ribeiro
The artist, Lancelot Ribeiro, with his favourite painting 'The Warlord (oil
and PVA on canvas), 1966.
BornNovember 28, 1933
Bombay (Mumbai)
DiedDecember 25, 2010 (aged 77)
London
Alma materSt Martin's School of Art, London. St Mary's Senior Cambridge
School, Mount Abu, Rajputana. St Sebastian's School and St Xavier's High
School for Boys in Bombay.[1]
StylePainting
MovementModern art, Post War Indian expressionism[2]
Websitelanceribeiro.co.uk

Lancelot Ribeiro (born 1933, died 2010 London) was an Indian modern artist.
According to the Independent, he is considered to have been at "the
vanguard of the influx of Indian artists to Britain."[3]

Early life[edit source]

Lancelot Ribeiro was born in 1933 to in Bombay, India accountant Joao José
Fernando Flores Ribeiro and his mother Lilia. He was the half-brother of
artist F.N. Souza. Ribeiro moved to London in 1950, living with his brother
and studying accountancy. He abandoned this career when attending life
classes at St Martin's School of Art between 1951 and 1953. He served in
the RAF in Scotland, then returned to Bombay. After working with Life
Insurance Corporation, he began working professionally as a painter in
1958.[3]

Career[edit source]

Ribeiro's creative life spanned half a century, during which time he became
known for a "huge body"[3] of figurative and abstract work. Among his
artistic productions were portrait heads, still lifes, landscapes, and
pigment experiments dating back to the early 1960s which "lead to works of
peculiar brilliance and transparency."[3]

Ribeiro died in 2010 in London.[3] In November 2016, as part of the 2017
UK-India Year of Culture, the exhibition Ribeiro: A Celebration of Life,
Love and Passion was held in association with the British Museum and other
institutions.[4]

Reception[edit source]

The British mainstream media has said:

"Lancelot Ribeiro was one of the most original Indian painters who settled
in Britain after the Second World War. Although there has been a surge of
dealer and collector interest in artists from the subcontinent, Ribeiro
remains relatively unknown compared with contemporaries such as his
half-brother FN Souza, Avinash Chandra, Balraj Khanna and Anish Kapoor." --
The Independent (London)[3]

Nicholas Treadwell remembers Ribeiro at The British Museum during 'Asian
Art in London' week, November 2016

Artistic landmarks[edit source]

1951-53: Joins art classes at Saint Martin's School of Art, London[2]
1958: Begins painting professionally[3]
1960: Organises his first solo exhibition, Bombay Art Society Salon.[2]
Soon sold out. Five other exhibitions follow this in Bombay (Mumbai), New
Delhi and Calcutta (Kolkata).[3]
1961: First solo art exhibition at the Bombay Artist Aid Centre. Included
among the Ten Indian Painters exhibition. Extensive tour of India, Europe,
US and Canada. Gets a commission for a 12-foot mural for the Tata Iron and
Steel Company[3]
1962: Returns to London with wife. Gets grant from the Congress for
Cultural Freedom in Paris. Mixed shows at Piccadilly, Rawinsky, John
Whibley and Crane Kalman galleries in London and Galerie Lambert, Paris.
All India Gold Medal nomination.[3]
1963: Co-founds the Indian Painters’ Collective.[2]
1960s and 1970s: Solos and group shows. Ribeiro lectures on Indian art,
culture at Commonwealth Institute[3]
1986: Retrospective covering 1960s work, at Leicestershire Museum and Art
Gallery[3]
1987: At Camden Arts Centre.[3]
1998: LTG Gallery, New Delhi[3]
2010: Displays one painting at British Art Fair, 2010 after a long
absence.[1]
2013: Retrospective exhibition at Asia House, London in May-June[2].
Exhibition was scheduled for New Delhi in November.[2]

Role of acrylics[edit source]

In a longish obituary, The Times of London acknowledges Ribeiro's role as
an "[a]cclaimed Indian artist who pioneered the use of acrylics in the
1960s, producing a brilliancy of colour in his expressionistic works".[5]
The paper talks of Ribeiro's "increasing impatience" by the 1960s over the
time it took for oils to dry, as also its "lack of brilliance in its colour
potential." He took to the new synthetic plastic bases that commercial
paints were beginning to use, and soon got help from manufacturers like
ICI, Courtaulds and Geigy. The companies supplied him samples of their
latest paints in quantities that he was using three decades later,
according to the paper. Initially, the firms thought the PVA compounds
would not be needed in commercially viable quantities. But they quickly
recognised the potential demand and "so Ribeiro became the godfather of
generations of artists using acrylics as an alternative to oils."[5]

As F.N. Souza's half-brother[edit source]

It is suggested that Ribeiro had a work in completing some of Souza's art
works:

Souza's success and resulting social life meant t

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[Goanet-News] Goa Forward Fast-Forwards BJP Move to Upend State Verdict as Parrikar Reclaims Power (Devika Sequeira, TheWire.in

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Goa Forward Fast-Forwards BJP Move to Upend State Verdict as
Parrikar Reclaims Power

BY DEVIKA SEQUEIRA
devikaseque...@gmail.com

Party with three MLAs that campaigned on anti-saffron
platform will now join hands to bring the BJP back to power.

PHOTO: 'Look, they are calling
me back home!' Defence minister
Manohar Parrikar outside
parliament. On Sunday night, he
was appointed chief minister of
Goa for the third time. Credit: PTI

Panaji: A day after the Bharatiya Janata Party was
convincingly shown the door in Goa, the party has managed to
subvert the electoral verdict and return to power again with
the support of the Goa Forward (GF) party, the
Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) and some independents.
Late on Sunday night, according to PTI, Goa governor Mridula
Sinha appointed Manohar Parrikar -- currently defence
minister of India -- as chief minister of the state and gave
him 15 days to prove his majority in the assembly.

  Working overtime to muscle his way to power and
  undo a humiliating result for which he was mostly
  responsible as the chief campaigner and strategist,
  defence minister Manohar Parrikar managed to move
  the last hurdle in his way by capturing the support
  of the ambitious Goa Forward MLA Vijai Sardessai
  and two other members who held the key to
  government formation.

Parrikar is expected to resign as raksha mantri and return to
Goa -- which he once ran for seven years -- as head of the
motley new grouping which could be sworn in as early as
Tuesday. Union Minister Nitin Gadkari, who camped out in Goa
from Saturday night to facilitate negotiations with the MGP
given his good relations with party leader Sudin Dhavlikar,
was among those who went to Raj Bhavan late Sunday to stake a
claim on behalf of the BJP to government formation.

Goa Forward, whose leaders had claimed the Congress would be
their "natural choice" to ally with in government, has
virtually split over the decision. The party's president,
Prabhakar Timble, resigned on Sunday night over the
development. One member told this correspondent that
Sardessai walked off with the other two MLAs, even as
discussions were in progress on the terms being sought from
both the Congress and BJP. The party had several informal
meetings with both national parties through Sunday, they said.

The BJP's decision to lay claim to power and the GF's move to
align with the saffron group has caused disbelief among
voters who feel short-changed after the rejection of the
saffron party in the assembly election.

What rankled most with Goa Forward members too is that the
nascent local party formed only recently drew its sustenance
from its strong anti-BJP stand. Sardessai in fact often
claimed he had been a far stronger single-handed opposition
to the BJP government than the whole of the Congress
legislature wing put together.

  A former Congressman, the 47-year-old politician
  fell out with the Congress, more particularly Goa
  PCC chief Luizinho Faleiro, after being denied a
  party ticket in the 2012 election. That move,
  ironically, helped him win from Fatorda
  constituency for the first time as an independent
  in the last election. But the enmity between the
  two continued and even caused the pre-poll alliance
  between the Congress and GF to fall apart after
  Faleiro's backhand move to field a Congress
  candidate against Sardessai.

Late on Saturday night, it emerged that Parrikar was making a
concerted move to grab power. By Sunday morning, the BJP had
floated the buzz that the party's newly elected MLAs, now
down to a mere 13 to the Congress' 17 in a 40-member House,
were in favour of the defence minister's return to Goa to
take over the reins of power.

Parrikar himself lost no time in making contact with all the
non-Congress MLAs to try and shore up support. With its
numbers as low as 13 -- a loss of 8 seats from its 2012 tally
-- the BJP needs the backing of almost all the rest of the
non-Congress MLAs, which means Goa Forward, MGP, NCP and
independents who collectively hold 10 seats.

Parrikar's intentions were clear soon after the verdict
itself, when he went into a verbal contortion trying to
explain to the media why he felt the mandate was not against
the government but "individual MLAs" -- a rather curious
explanation, given that the outgoing chief minister,
Laxmikant Parsekar was himself trounced in this election.

Though Parrikar said he "accepted the verdict of the people",
he also put out the theory that the fractured mandate and the
BJP's high vote share -- with 32.5%, it polled 4% more than
the Congress -- somehow gave it a right to make a bid for
power by "working something out" with the two local parties
and the independents.

"If the party president (Amit Shah) has said that the BJP is
forming the government in the state, then definitely we are
going to