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Lot Essay
Born in London on 2nd November 1915, David Carr was educated at Uppingham. After working for the family firm, Peek Frean's biscuits and studying History at Exeter College, Oxford, Carr turned to full-time painting. In 1938 he enrolled in the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing run by Cedric Morris and Lett-Haines. It was here that he met Lucien Freud, a fellow student at the school.
In 1943 Carr discovered the work of L.S. Lowry at the Lefevre Gallery, leading to a lifelong friendship between the artists. On giving Lowry one of his paintings in 1952 Lowry wrote to Carr "Yesterday I had a friend and his wife here, who were passing through Manchester, who, foolish people, thought that they knew everything about pictures. It completely shook them. they had never seen anything like it. They were holding forth about it, so I just thought that I would give them something to think about, and their reaction to it was beyond my wildest hopes. It is a fine work and grows on me." (see B. Robertson and R. Alley, David Carr, The Discovery of an Artist, London, 1987)
Through the Lefevre Gallery, Carr also befriended Robert Colquhoun, Robert Macbryde and particluarly Prunella Clough who shared a similar interest in the late forties in urban detritus and factories as inspiration, although a lot of Carrs imagery of men and machines originates from his visits to the family factory in 1949 and 1950.
David Carr died in 1967, shortly before the opening of his first exhibition at the Bertha Schaeffer Gallery in New York.
In 1943 Carr discovered the work of L.S. Lowry at the Lefevre Gallery, leading to a lifelong friendship between the artists. On giving Lowry one of his paintings in 1952 Lowry wrote to Carr "Yesterday I had a friend and his wife here, who were passing through Manchester, who, foolish people, thought that they knew everything about pictures. It completely shook them. they had never seen anything like it. They were holding forth about it, so I just thought that I would give them something to think about, and their reaction to it was beyond my wildest hopes. It is a fine work and grows on me." (see B. Robertson and R. Alley, David Carr, The Discovery of an Artist, London, 1987)
Through the Lefevre Gallery, Carr also befriended Robert Colquhoun, Robert Macbryde and particluarly Prunella Clough who shared a similar interest in the late forties in urban detritus and factories as inspiration, although a lot of Carrs imagery of men and machines originates from his visits to the family factory in 1949 and 1950.
David Carr died in 1967, shortly before the opening of his first exhibition at the Bertha Schaeffer Gallery in New York.