Representative work by Eileen Agar
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Eileen Agar

b. 1899, Buenos Aires, Argentina · Based in London, United Kingdom

  • Slade School of Fine Art, London (1924)
  • Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris (1928)
  • Surrealism
  • Painting
  • Collage
  • Assemblage

Eileen Agar was a central figure of British Surrealism whose imaginative paintings and assemblages synthesized organic marine specimens, shells, bones, and classical mythology. Melding Cubist structure with Surrealist chance, her tactile works celebrate nature's playful mysteries.

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