Eileen Agar — Surrealism’s unlikely angel
Christina Heflin, Financial Times
April 2021
”One day I was an artist exploring personal combinations of form and content, and the next I was calmly informed I was a Surrealist!’
British artist Eileen Agar, who died in 1991, was surprised when she was invited to participate in London’s first Surrealist Exhibition in 1936. Since then, and despite a brilliant artistic career that saw her work included in collections around the world, Agar rarely found the spotlight on her own. This makes the forthcoming retrospective at the Whitechapel Gallery — entitled Angel of Anarchy after one of Agar’s most significant sculptures — a momentous occasion.’ […]