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Eileen Agar

Notebook

1928–[1980s]

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Eileen Agar 1899–1991
Date
1928–[1980s]
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Created by
Eileen Agar 1899–1991
Title
Notebook
Date
1928–[1980s]
Description
Containing notes for Eileen Agar's autobiography, 'A Look at My Life', including her thoughts on art, modernism, and abstractism. Also includes some notes on Joseph and selections of his 'jottings'.

Glued on page 32 is a press cutting on Joseph Bard's 'Shipwreck in Europe' dated 1928. Glued into the inside back cover is a press cutting from the English language journal of the Planned Parenthood Association of Thailand on artificial insemination
Format
Bound volume - notebook
Collection
Tate Archive
Acquisition
Bequeathed to Tate Archive by Eileen Agar, 1992.
Reference
TGA 9222/2/1/1
Cubism Romanticism Post-Impressionism Neo-Impressionism British Surrealism Neo-Romanticism Surrealism Bloomsbury Group

Archive context

  • Personal papers of and artworks by Eileen Agar TGA 9222 (239)
    • Notebooks and writings TGA 9222/2 (11)
      • Notebooks TGA 9222/2/1 (2)
        • Notebook TGA 9222/2/1/1
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