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Article: VISUAL ARTS / Prunella Clough and David Carr Austin Desmond Fine Art, London

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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

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