Agar, Eileen

From: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art | Date: 1999| Author: IAN CHILVERS | Copyright information

Agar, Eileen (1899–1991). British painter, born in Buenos Aires, the daughter of a British businessman who made a fortune there. She moved to England as a child and studied with Leon Underwood, 1924, at the Slade School, 1925–6, and in Paris, 1928–30. During the 1930s she became one of the leading British exponents of Surrealism, taking part in several of the major internation...

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