Paul Nash

Postcard from Paul Nash to Eileen Agar

[6 July 1936]

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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

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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 8712/1/17

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