“Eileen Agar: Angel of Anarchy”

This retrospective cleverly returns Agar to the site of the “International Surrealist Exhibition" of 1936, when she was proclaimed a Surrealist , as she said, “One day I was an artist exploring highly personal combinations of form and content, the next I was calmly informed I was a Surrealist!”. Agar was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, her father was a Scottish industrialist and her mother, an American biscuit heiress. She dashed her parents’ high hopes for an eligible match as a debutante, and pursued art instead, admitted to The Slade School of Fine Art, London, in 1921. Agar was disappointed by the traditional academic training she received and following her graduation in 1925, she destroyed most of the work she’d created to date. She ran away to Cornwall and upon returning to London, she moved in with her lifelong partner, Joseph Bard.   Eileen Agar, Angel…