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...She brings a selection of work by female surrealists — including Leonor Fini, Dorothea Tanning and the gallery’s latest charge, the estate of Eileen Agar....
...British artist Eileen Agar, who died in 1991, was surprised when she was invited to participate in London’s first Surrealist Exhibition in 1936....
...British-based artists such as Roland Penrose, Henry Moore, Paul Nash and Eileen Agar spent time in Paris in the 1920s, meeting Breton, Ray, Max Ernst and Salvador Dalí....
...Eileen Gray’s stock rose dramatically, for example, with the €22m sale of her 1920s “dragon” armchair at Christie’s auction of the Yves Saint Laurent collection in early 2009....
...The group harmonised like a raspier Fleet Foxes, but their instrumentation is too close to “Come on, Eileen”-type hokey for my comfort....
...Eileen Agar, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, UK Flinging her arms towards the Mediterranean sky, the 38-year-old Eileen Agar flaunts her slim, elegant body in an erotic dance on a hotel rooftop in France...
...She displays sculptural recreations of Mies van der Rohe – first shown at the last Berlin biennial, for which she was nominated – along with ephemera from Tate’s archives of Paul Nash and Eileen Agar, reprising...
...In the Lecture Room, Tony Cragg’s elegantly sparse arrangement, including his own tumbling, dynamic, heavy/light bronze “Slanted Faces” (left), Philip King’s pink-framed, latticed “Tunis Rak”, David Nash...
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