Paul Nash

Postcard from Paul Nash to Eileen Agar

[6 July 1936]

Eileen Agar, ‘Front’ [6 July 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: [6 July 1936]
Description: Regarding his discovery among his mementoes of 'a quaint bit of reality to set against my surreality of the swan'
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to Tate Archive by Eileen Agar, August 1987.
Reference: TGA 8712/1/17

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

Archive context

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 8712/1/17

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