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Ribeiro at the 1987 Swiss Cottage Retrospective. 'Juggernaut City' pictured on the right
Ribeiro at the 1987 Swiss Cottage Retrospective. 'Juggernaut City' pictured on the right
Lancelot Ribeiro
Juggernaut City, 1968
Polyvinyl acetate on canvas
83 x 118 cm
32 5/8 x 46 1/2 in
32 5/8 x 46 1/2 in
Signed, dated and titled 'Juggernaut City/ Ribeiro '68' lower left
Further images
'With the title Juggernaut he not only refers to a merciless, destructive, unstoppable force but to the word's Indian origins in the giant Hindu temple car at the Jagannath Temple,...
"With the title Juggernaut he not only refers to a merciless, destructive, unstoppable force but to the word's Indian origins in the giant Hindu temple car at the Jagannath Temple, which apocryphally was reputed to crush devotees under its wheels."
Katriana Hazell, in the Asia House publication, 2013
Katriana Hazell, in the Asia House publication, 2013
Provenance
The Estate of the ArtistExhibitions
Instituto Menezes Braganza, Panjim, Goa, Lancelot Ribeiro, 1969Swiss Cottage, London, Lancelot Ribeiro, a Retrospective: 1960-1986, 1986-87
Asia House, London, Restless Ribeiro, An Indian Artist in Britain, 2013, No. 32
Grosvenor Gallery, London, South Asian Modern Art 2023, 8-30 June, No.33, (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue)
Literature
Restless Ribeiro, An Indian Artist in Britain, Asia House, London, 2013, p. 49Buckman, David, Lancelot Ribeiro, An Artist in India and Europe, Francis Boutle, London, 2014, p. 122
