Eileen Agar (UK/AR, 1899 – 1991) – Art by Women

Eileen Agar (UK/Argentina, 1899 – 1991), Adam’s Apple, 1949, Watercolour on paper

Eileen Forrester Agar RA (1 Dec 1899 – 17 Nov 1991) was a British-Argentinian painter and photographer associated with the Surrealist movement. Agar was born in Buenos Aires, to a Scottish father and American mother. Agar moved to London in 1911. At her second school, Heathfield School, Ascot, Agar's teacher, Lucy Kemp-Welch, encouraged her to continue to develop her art. In 1914, at the onset of World War I, Agar was sent away to Tudor Hall, then in Kent, to avoid the hardships of war. The music master, introduced Agar to various artists. Of her time then, Agar said: "I found myself in a milieu of art where art was a valued part of daily life". Agar found the Byam Shaw too academic and pleaded with her family to allow her to look elsewhere to continue her schooling. That infuriated her mother and, after an argument with her parents, Agar noted in her diary that she got up early, ate lunch with her sisters, packed her bags, and departed from Paddington station. She left a note for her parents stating that she was on her way to Truro and St Mawes, where she would stay with family friends. She studied at the Slade School of Art. In 1925, she married and, in the same year, she destroyed the majority of her early work, before moving to Paris in 1928. There she met the founders of the Surrealist movement, and she exhibited in the International Surrealist Exhibition in London in 1936. By the time this work was made, Agar had exhibited in Surrealist exhibitions all over the world.
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