Eileen Agar

 Eileen Agar (1899–1991) was a British-Argentinian painter and photographer known for her involvement in the Surrealist movement. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to a Scottish father and an American mother, she moved to England in 1911.

 

Agar studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, where she developed her interest in avant-garde art. In the 1930s, Agar became associated with the Surrealists, influenced by the movement's emphasis on the unconscious mind and dream imagery. She exhibited with Surrealist artists such as Salvador Dalí and René Magritte, and her work often combined elements of abstraction and surrealism. Agar's art included a wide range of mediums, from painting and sculpture to photography and collage, frequently incorporating found objects. She said: ‘Very early on I liked doing collage and making objects, that sort of thing. It very often frees you rather than sticking to one thing. If you stick to one, just painting, you lose ideas. But if you play about with other things they bring you into conflict with other ideas.’