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 Eileen Agar (1899–1991) was a lyrical and imaginative painter who managed to retain her own identity even when in the overpowering company of Picasso and despite being pigeon-holed as a Surrealist. She was a talented photographer, an inspired collagist and occasional object-maker. Her artistic roots were in Cubism and Abstraction as much as in the native British Romanticism which found such exuberant expression for a few years in Surrealism. This exhibition, curated by Andrew Lambirth, will endeavour to show Agar as the independent and original artist she was, focusing on her exceptional gift with paint and collage. Eileen Agar, Self-Portrait, 1938, On loan from a private collection, © Artist’s Estate |