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Eileen Agar

1899–1991

Figures in a Garden 1979–81
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Biography

Eileen Forrester Agar (1 December 1899 – 17 November 1991) was an Argentine-British painter and photographer associated with the Surrealist movement.

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British Surrealism

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Head of Dylan Thomas

Eileen Agar
1960

Three Symbols

Eileen Agar
1930

The Reaper

Eileen Agar
1938

Angel of Anarchy

Eileen Agar
1936–40

The Autobiography of an Embryo

Eileen Agar
1933–4
On display at Tate Britain part of Historic and Modern British Art

Marine Object

Eileen Agar
1939

Fish Basket

Eileen Agar
c.1965

Figures in a Garden

Eileen Agar
1979–81

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Eileen Agar: a British Surrealist

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Letter from Paul Nash to Eileen Agar

Paul Nash, recipient: Eileen Agar
[12 April 1940]

Hand coloured lithograph of ‘Ghosts’, one of Nash’s illustrations from ‘Urne Burial’, initialled P

Paul Nash, recipient: Eileen Agar
[1935–46]

‘Aerial Flowers’, by Paul Nash

Paul Nash, recipient: Eileen Agar
1947

Photograph of Joseph Bard and Dandy the dog playing tug of war with a stick

Eileen Agar
1940
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