- Created by
- Eileen Agar 1899–1991
- Title
- Photograph of ‘Angel of anarchy’ (1st version)
- Date
- 1936–7
- Medium
- Negative
- Dimensions
- 65 x 61 mm
- Description
- Taken at Bramham Gardens Studio, London. Photograph of a plaster head made by Eileen Agar. This was the original version of a work by the same name which is now in Tate Britain (Tate: T03809). The original version went missing which Eileen wrote about on pages 127-128 of her autobiography, 'A look at my life'.
- Format
- Photograph - negative
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented to Tate Archive by Eileen Agar in 1989 and transferred from the photograph collection in 2012.
- Reference
- TGA 8927/14/4
Archive context
- Photograph collection belonging to Eileen Agar TGA 8927 (953)
- Photographs of sculpture, wall paintings and mosaics TGA 8927/14 (59)
- Photograph of 'Angel of anarchy' (1st version) TGA 8927/14/4
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