Eileen Agar: the reluctant surrealist
Laura Cumming, The Guardian
May 2021
‘By a quirk of fate, and museum tastes, the British artist Eileen Agar is still best known for a single sculpture in the Tate collection: a magnetically outlandish male head titled Angel of Anarchy (c1936). Constructed from diamante, osprey feathers, cowrie shells and piratical black satin, it resembles a sort of 3D Arcimboldo. But it has a mate called The Angel of Mercy, which is equally stunning, yet practically never seen outside a private collection.’ […]