For years, the Tate has held a trove of artworks by 20th-century British artist Eileen Agar without even necessarily knowing it. “Interestingly, [her assemblages are] in their archive, not in their ...

LONDON — Revolutionaries come in two varieties: the short-lived and the long-lived. The long-lived give themselves ample opportunity to recant. What exactly happened to Eileen Agar, one of England's ...

Art history is a collaborative project, forever being written and revised. The legacies of artists are developed over time by a small army of contributors and shaped by forces beyond the art itself.

The British artist lived long and worked in numerous mediums, but is barely known in the United States. By Roberta Smith The history of art by women still has its secrets. Some recent revelations ...

Agar wasn’t easily discouraged, though. At the tender age of six, she’d been sent away to boarding school, an experience that made her fiercely independent. Later she studied at the Slade, but ...

Eileen Agar, also known as Eileen Forrester Agar, was a British artist associated with Surrealism. She was born in 1899 in Buenos Aires, Argentina and passed away in 1991 in London. Her work in ...

Sooner or later, the art world “was always going to remember Eileen Agar”, said Waldemar Januszczak in The Sunday Times. An artistic contemporary of Paul Nash, Lee Miller and Salvador Dalí, Agar (1899 ...

Eileen Agar, also known as Eileen Forrester Agar, was a British artist associated with Surrealism. She was born in 1899 in Buenos Aires, Argentina and passed away in 1991 in London. Her work in ...

Surrealism hits London: Southampton's renowned surrealist collection will be shown at the Treasure House Fair from 24–30 June 2026 at the Royal Hospital Chelsea. Civic roots revealed: The gallery’s ...