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Note by Eileen Agar on how she made her artworks ‘The Obelisk of Satisfied Desire’ and ‘The Magician’

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Eileen Agar 1899–1991
Title
Note by Eileen Agar on how she made her artworks ‘The Obelisk of Satisfied Desire’ and ‘The Magician’
Date
Description
Attached to a typewritten page on the surrealist group in London, suitable subjects for art and sense of play in art
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Document - writings
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Bequeathed to Tate Archive by Eileen Agar, 1992.
Reference
TGA 9222/2/3/4
Romanticism Unit One Seven and Five Society British Surrealism Neo-Romanticism Surrealism British War Art Artists’ International Association

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  • Personal papers of and artworks by Eileen Agar TGA 9222 (239)
    • Notebooks and writings TGA 9222/2 (11)
      • Writings by Eileen Agar TGA 9222/2/3 (7)
        • Note by Eileen Agar on how she made her artworks ‘The Obelisk of Satisfied Desire’ and ‘The Magician’ TGA 9222/2/3/4
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