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Article: Spare no detail ART DIANA ROSS, NUDE GOLFERS, TOM STOPPARD'S 'SEXY MOUTH'... MATTHEW CARR HAS DRAWN THEM ALL, WITH UNRIVALLED INTENSITY. HE TALKS TO DAVID JENKINS ABOUT HIS SURPRISINGLY COLOURFUL LIFE
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- June 29, 2008
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THERE'S NEVER A DULL MOMENT IF YOU'RE A
neighbour of Matthew Carr. It might be that a limo draws up
outside his Barons Court home in west London and disgorges Diana
Ross - 'My standing in the community soared,' says Carr, his rich,
rather grand voice suffused, as it often is, with self-mocking
laughter. But his self-esteem plummeted. He so loathed the resultant
painting, and the palm trees that Ms Ross asked to be placed in the
background, that he was driven to giving up portrait commissions -
and heroin. It was, he implies, the rebirth of him.
Or if it's not La Ross, it's a hairy glass-fibre rhino being
manhandled up the four flights of stairs that lead to his Chelsea
studio by a gang of ...
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