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- Joseph Bard 1882–1975
- Recipient
- Eileen Agar 1899–1991
- Title
- Script of a hypothetical conversation between Joseph and ‘Allegra’ on masculinity
- Date
- 3 December 1928
- Description
- Eileen Agar was briefly nicknamed 'Allegra' by Joseph Bard and Ezra Pound following a stay in Rapallo in 1927. Originally enclosed in TGA 9222/1/1/4.
- Format
- Document - writings
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Bequeathed to Tate Archive by Eileen Agar, 1992.
- Reference
- TGA 9222/1/1/2
Archive context
- Personal papers of and artworks by Eileen Agar TGA 9222 (239)
- Correspondence TGA 9222/1 (3)
- Correspondence between Eileen Agar and Joseph Bard TGA 9222/1/1 (3)
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Joseph Bard Photograph of Joseph Bard sitting with Dandy the dog
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Eileen Agar Black and white glass lantern slide of Joseph Bard on a balcony
[c.1930] -
Eileen Agar Note by Eileen Agar on painting, surrealism and abstractism, and collage
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Eileen Agar Note on Lewis Carroll, describing him as ‘a prophet of surrealism’
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Eileen Agar Black and white glass lantern slide of Mary Oliver spraying Joseph Barda with a hose
[c.1930] -
Eileen Agar Photograph of Joseph Bard nude on Picasso’s balcony at the Hotel Vaste Horizon, Mougins, France
September 1937 -
Eileen Agar Note by Eileen Agar on how she made her artworks ‘The Obelisk of Satisfied Desire’ and ‘The Magician’
date not known -
Eileen Agar Photograph of Joseph Bard sitting nude on Picasso’s balcony at the Hotel Vaste Horizon, Mougins, France
September 1937 -
Eileen Agar, recipient: Eileen Agar Love letter from Joseph Bard to Eileen Agar
2 June 1926 -
Eileen Agar Note by Eileen Agar on how her artworks ‘Harlequin’ and ‘Bird and Egg’ were painted
date not known -
Eileen Agar Note by Eileen Agar on her work ‘Sea-deep’
date not known
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