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The effect of his experiments inspired a new form of abstraction in his work; colourful and lyrical pieces which contrasted with the darker palette of his early paintings. \r\nOver this period, he also produced a limited series of surrealist works such as Fantasy Sequence which he categorised as ‘line and wash drawings’ produced with ‘PVA and inks.’\n\r\nThese small expressive artworks placed his figures in everyday and sometimes humorous settings; in which he played with conventional perspective to give a three-dimensionality to the composition. \n\r\nBy 1976, in a letter to the Geneva-based Galerie Den Berg, Ribeiro revealed that of the handful he did, only a few were remaining. Presumably several had been sold. \r\n\r\nLancelot Ribeiro’s ink and wash drawings were exhibited at his University of Sussex solo exhibition in 1973 and acquired by the Gardner Arts Centre (now Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts), part of the University of Sussex. They were also shown at a private house exhibition entitled ‘Lancelot Ribeiro: Paintings and Drawings’ by the gallerist Margaret Fisher in 1974. However, as he grouped these works collectively on his catalogues as ‘Line and Wash’ drawings, the individual pieces which were shown are unknown. \n\r\nFantasy Sequence was reproduced in the Restless Ribeiro catalogue (2013), page 35.\r\nIt was exhibited at the Restless Ribeiro exhibition at Asia House in 2013 and the V&A’s Evening event Ribeiro – A Celebration of Life, Love and Passion on 17th March 2017, as part of the 2016/17 Heritage Lottery Funded Retracing Ribeiro project.\r\n\r\n","historicalContext":"Lancelot Ribeiro (1933-2010) was born in Bombay to a Roman Catholic family from Goa. He came to London in 1950 and trained at St Martins School of Art before returning to Bombay. He began painting professionally in 1958 and had his first solo exhibition in Bombay in 1961 which launched his career. In 1962 he moved back to London permanently.\n\r\nHis early work ranged from expressionistic visions of homeland to portraits drawn from the Christian tradition and depictions of ‘Heads’ embodying tyranny and power. His few surrealist drawings were an important aspect of his practice and emerged at a time he was producing wide-ranging pieces across different media. His watercolours were an understudied part of his oeuvre and evolved from naturalistic depictions of landscape in the early 1970s to compositional studies in abstraction a decade later. He then moved into large-scale expressionistic paintings of figures with political or religious undertones, much like his earlier work.\n\r\nRibeiro co-founded the Indian Painters Collective (IPC) in 1963, which spearheaded a movement advocating for the recognition of artists from the Subcontinent within Britain’s art establishment. The IPC was the first body of its kind outside India and the first to stage an exhibition of Indian artists in Britain, eventually becoming the Indian Artists UK (IAUK). \n\r\nRibeiro’s pioneering experimentation with polyvinyl acetate (PVA) earned him the reputation of the ‘godfather of generations of artists using acrylics’ (The Times, 2011). His artistic practice remained innately experimental in his use of materials, subject, style and form and reflected his lifelong philosophy, ‘I could go on endlessly to produce painting after painting – interesting perhaps – but somewhat meaningless and self-plagiarising.’ \r\n","briefDescription":"Painting, 'Fantasy Sequence', by Lancelot Ribeiro, watercolour, inks, PVA and varnish on paper, London, c.1965\r\n\r\nPreviously identified as 'The Trio' 1962.","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["IS.75-2016"],"accessionNumberNum":"75","accessionNumberPrefix":"IS","accessionYear":2016,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2026-02-16","recordCreationDate":"2016-05-05","availableToBook":true}}