Ribeiro met his future wife, Ana Rita Pinto Correia, mother of their two daughters, around 1959 on Calangute Beach in Goa. They married six months in Bombay in May 1960. R. Parthasarathy recalled: ‘Ana Rita’s family was part of the Goan-Portuguese élite. Gentle, soft-spoken, and self-effacing, Ana Rita provided the anchor that Lance badly needed. He couldn’t have chosen a better life partner’.

Painted in London, this striking portrait of Ana Rita, Expressionistic in manner, with areas of experimental colour, such as the blue lips, is the only recognisable likeness that Ribeiro painted. He always insisted that his works, while influenced by the world around him, were essentially the products of his imagination rather than representations of reality.