VICTOR PASMORE, R.A., C.H. (1908-1998)

Samuel Carr was chairman of the publishers B.T. Batsford, and a keen collector of Modern British Art. His brother, the well-known Northern Irish painter Tom Carr, introduced Sam to his Slade School and Euston Road School contemporaries. Sam struck up a particularly close friendship with Victor Pasmore and purchased many works directly from him.

The sitter in the present work is Claude Rogers and was painted when Rogers and Pasmore were visiting Walter Sickert in Bath.