Eileen Agar 1899-1991
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EILEEN AGAR, Surrealist painter in oil and acrylic, collagist and object-maker. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, she came to England in 1911. Studied at the Byam Shaw School with Rex Vicat Cole, then with Leon Underwood at his Brook Green School and at the Slade School of Fine Art with Henry Tonks, Philip Wilson Steer and Walter Westley Russell. Studied for two years in Paris, where she became familiar with modern movements such as Surrealism. Became friendly with Ezra Pound, Evelyn Waugh, Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, Henry Moore and Paul Nash. Took part in the International Surrealist Exhibition in London, 1936. Showed widely in London, having a first one-man exhibition at the Redfern Gallery in 1942. The Tate Gallery among others holds her work which has a strong jokey element. Shortly before she died, in London, she was elected RA. Eileen Agar photographed by Cecil Beaton.
