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Article: VISUAL ARTS / Prunella Clough and David Carr Austin Desmond Fine Art, London
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- The Independent (London, England)
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- July 18, 1997
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VISUAL ARTS / Prunella Clough and David Carr Austin Desmond
Fine Art, London
David Carr was a gentlemanly sort of painter. As heir to the
Peek Frean fortune he was headed for the family biscuit business,
until a holiday in Italy in the late 1930s diverted him towards
more aesthetic pursuits. To his family's displeasure, he followed
his whim at Cedric Morris's East Anglian School of Painting and
Drawing, where his fellow students included the young Lucian Freud.
We are only offered a glimpse of his work here but, on this
evidence, his earliest pictures were the most successful:
hard-edged, slightly childlike images of fisher-folk cleaning nets
and, best of all, a self portrait In the Bath, ...