Paul Nash

Postcard from Paul Nash to Eileen Agar

[15 May 1936]

Eileen Agar, ‘Front’ [15 May 1936] — Image released under Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND (3.0 Unported)

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Created by: Paul Nash 1889–1946
Title: Postcard from Paul Nash to Eileen Agar
Date: [15 May 1936]
Description: Regarding the photograph of a plane on the front of the postcard which Nash thinks is 'oddly alive'
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to Tate Archive by Eileen Agar, August 1987.
Reference: TGA 8712/1/14

Art informel British Surrealism Pittura metafisica (metaphysical art) Post-impressionism Surrealism Tachisme

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Correspondence and small art works from Paul Nash and general correspondence to Eileen Agar TGA 8712 (64)

Letters and postcards from Paul Nash to Eileen Agar TGA 8712/1 (54)

Postcard from Paul Nash to Eileen Agar TGA 8712/1/14

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