LANDSCAPE & FORMS
Artix – 1.O | Taj Palace, New Delhi | 25th – 27th Aug, 2023
works by two master artist
Lancelot Ribeiro
Lancelot Ribeiro was born in Bombay in 1933 to a Catholic family from Goa. In 1950 Ribeiro’s mother sent her sixteen- year-old son to London to live with his older half-brother, the eminent artist F N Souza, and to study accountancy. However, he soon abandoned his course in order to attend life classes at St Martin’s School of Art from 1951 to 1953. After the completion of his National Service in 1955, Ribeiro returned to Bombay to work with the Life Insurance Corporation and paint in his spare time. In 1958 he began to paint professionally; his first solo exhibition at the Bombay Art Society Salon in 1960 soon sold out, and was followed by five others in Bombay, New Delhi and Calcutta. In 1961 Ribeiro was included in the ‘Ten Indian Painters’ exhibition, which toured extensively in India, Europe, the UK, the US and Canada.
Avinash Chandra
Born in Simla in 1931, Chandra studied painting at the Polytechnic in Delhi, where in 1953 he joined the staff until 1956 when he moved to London. In 1951 he held his first one-man exhibition in India, showing the following years in Belfast, Paris, Amsterdam, Zurich, Copenhagen, Stockholm and in several cities in the UK. In 1964 he became the first Indian artist to exhibit at the Documenta in Kassel. His works were then shown in the USA, Canada and Israel, as well as showing at the Hayward Gallery in London, 1989. His paintings are included in the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, Tate Gallery and Victoria & Albert Museum, London, Musee d’Art Moderne, Paris, Museum of Modern Art, Berlin and in New York University, among other public collections. Chandra died on the 15th of September 1991.
