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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Head of Dylan Thomas
Eileen Agar
1960
Three Symbols
Eileen Agar
1930

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The Reaper
Eileen Agar
1938
Angel of Anarchy
Eileen Agar
1936–40
The Autobiography of an Embryo
Eileen Agar
1933–4

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Marine Object
Eileen Agar
1939

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Fish Basket
Eileen Agar
c.1965
Figures in a Garden
Eileen Agar
1979–81

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Eileen Agar: a British Surrealist

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