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Agar, Eileen Forrester [1899-1991. UK. Artist]

 

Eileen Forrester Agar was born to British parents in Buenos Aires, Argentina on 1 December 1899 and moved to England with them in 1911. She studied in London at the Byam Shaw School of Art (1918-19), Leon Underwood's Brook Green School of Art (1920-21), and at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London (1921-24). She also studied art in Paris from 1928 to 1930. She died in London on 17 November 1991

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Profile of Eileen Forrester Agar courtesy of Peter Nahum at The Leicester Galleries:

English painter of Argentine birth. She arrived in England in 1911; in 1924 she studied with Leon Underwood (1890–1975), and she attended the Slade School of Fine Art, London, from 1925 to 1926; she also studied art in Paris from 1928 to 1930. She was a member of the London Group from 1933, and her work was selected by Roland Penrose and Herbert Read for the International Surrealist Exhibition at the New Burlington Galleries, London, in 1936. Agar exhibited with the Surrealists both in England and abroad. From 1936 she experimented with automatic techniques and new materials, taking photographs and making collages and objects, for example The Angel of Anarchy (fabric over plaster and mixed media, 1936–40; London, Tate). By the 1960s she was producing Tachist paintings with Surrealist elements.
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Slow Movement, 1970, by Eileen Agar

Slow Movement, 1970, by Eileen Agar

Bibliography

1. Agar Eileen, A Look at My Life. London: Methuen, 1988

 2. Thirties: British Art and Design before the War. London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1979 [Catalogue of an exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London, 25 October-13 January 1979]