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Eileen Agar

1899–1991

Figures in a Garden 1979–81
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Biography

Eileen Forrester Agar (1 December 1899 – 17 November 1991) was an Argentine-British painter and photographer associated with the Surrealist movement.

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British Surrealism

Artworks

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  • Head of Dylan Thomas

    Eileen Agar
    1960

  • Three Symbols

    Eileen Agar
    1930
    On display at Tate Modern part of In the Studio

  • The Reaper

    Eileen Agar
    1938

  • Angel of Anarchy

    Eileen Agar
    1936–40
    On display at Tate Britain part of Historic and Modern British Art

  • The Autobiography of an Embryo

    Eileen Agar
    1933–4
    On display at Tate Britain part of Historic and Modern British Art

  • Marine Object

    Eileen Agar
    1939

  • Fish Basket

    Eileen Agar
    c.1965

  • Figures in a Garden

    Eileen Agar
    1979–81

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    Look Closer

    Eileen Agar: a British Surrealist

Sketches, letters, etc.

  • Letter from Paul Nash to Eileen Agar

    Paul Nash, recipient: Eileen Agar
    [24 September 1941]

  • Drawing of birds with pencil note at the bottom reading ‘a goose bone to the seagulls (old saying)’

    Paul Nash, recipient: Eileen Agar
    [1935–46]

  • ‘Aerial Flowers’, by Paul Nash

    Paul Nash, recipient: Eileen Agar
    1947

  • Black and white glass lantern slide of a drawing of a Mexican statue

    Eileen Agar
    date not known
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