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Matthew Xavier Maillard Carr (5 February 1953 – 23 February 2011) was an artist from Britain. ==Biography== Carr was born in Oxford and named Matthew Xavier Maillard Carr. He studied at Camberwell School of Art from 1970 to 1971, followed by Cheltenham School of Art from 1972 to 1974. His father was Sir Raymond Carr, an eminent historian and Warden of St Antony's College, Oxford, and initially Carr seemed destined for an academic life by being sent to Eton College, but he left at the age of 16 to study art at Camberwell.〔Obituary to Matthew Carr, in ''The Daily Telegraph'' (London newspaper), 28 March 2011〕 After completing his studies at Cheltenham School of Art, Carr returned to Oxford, and began teaching art and art history, until 1977 when he persuaded his parents to allow Andy Warhol to use their house in Oxford to hold a party. In Carr's own words: 'So I met Andy Warhol, he saw the drawings I was doing, and next thing I knew he put me up at the Ritz for two days, then took me to America. And he introduced me to Robert Fraser, who became my first agent.'〔David Jenkins, 'Matthew Carr spares no detail', in ''The Daily Telegraph'' (London newspaper), 29 June 2008〕 Carr readily admitted this was both his big break in the art world, but also the start of a problem with drug addiction as he entered the celebrity world of London and New York in the late 1970s. It was to take him twenty years to overcome his drugs addition.〔Obituary to Matthew Carr, in ''The Daily Telegraph'' (London newspaper), 28 March 2011〕 In 1988 Carr married Lady Anne Somerset, a well regarded historian and daughter of the 11th Duke of Beaufort.() Despite being well connected in the art world, Carr was an infrequent exhibitor of his work. In 1977 He exhibited alongside Hugh Dunford Wood and Sara Lutyens in Church Street, Kensington, London, and he staged his first solo show at the Robert Fraser Gallery in London in 1983. Subsequent solo shows were at the Wildenstein Gallery in London in 1993, and two shows at Marlborough Fine Art, London, in 2003 and 2008.〔Marlborough Fine Art, ''Matthew Carr: New Work'' (London: Marlborough Fine Art, 2008) ISBN 978-1-904372-68-4〕 He also showed at Marlborough Gallery in New York in 2006. In 2006 he also took part in the exhibition ''Drawing Inspiration'', held at the Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, an exhibition that included the artists Tony Bevan, Christopher Bramham, Patrick Caulfield, Tracey Emin, Hughie O'Donoghue and others.〔Abbot Hall Art Gallery, ''Drawing Inspiration'' (Kendal: Lakeland Arts Trust, 2006)〕 Carr died of leukemia on 23 February 2011. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Matthew Carr (artist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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