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Lancelot Ribeiro
Mother and Child


- - Ribeiro said he was really at his happiest when painting portraits. Indeed, his fascination with heads remained an enduring obsession throughout his life and he became driven by the idea to create an exhibition Heads - In and Out of Our Time. Ribeiro's heads are like icons, always painted from the front and derive from his past Goan and Catholic environment. A review of his Bombay exhibition of 1961 lists the types he painted: "colonialists, k
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LANCELOT RIBEIRO

ARTWORK DETAILS

  • Lancelot Ribeiro
  • Mother and Child
  • Stamped with the artist's signature (verso)
  • c. 1965
  • Oil and polyvinyl acetate  on  canvas
  • 27.5 x 21 in (69.8 x 53.3 cm)
  • EXHIBITED:
    Lancelot Ribeiro, Gardener Arts Centre, University of Sussex, 1973
    Lancelot Ribeiro, Paintings: A Retrospective, Leicester Museum and Art Galleries, 1986
  • Category: Painting
    Style: Figurative



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