Born in Buenos Aires to a Scottish father and an American mother, Agar dramatically left her parents before the end of the First World War and headed to St Ives in England. She lived a bohemian life, marrying twice and having an affair with Paul Nash among others. A founding British Surrealist from 1930 (although she rejected the term), Agar had her first exhibition with the Bloomsbury Group in 1933, and her plaster head with fabrics ‘Angel of Anarchy’ is in Tate Britain. >> Read more
Born in Buenos Aires to a Scottish father and an American mother, Agar dramatically left her parents before the end of the First World War and headed to St Ives in England. She lived a bohemian life, marrying twice and having an affair with Paul Nash among others. A founding British Surrealist from 1930 (although she rejected the term), Agar had her first exhibition with the Bloomsbury Group in 1933, and her plaster head with fabrics ‘Angel of Anarchy’ is in Tate Britain.
After the Second World War, Agar started a new productive phase of her life. By the 1960s she was producing Tachist paintings with Surrealist elements, and held 16 solo exhibitions between 1946 and 1985. In 1988 she published her autobiography ‘A Look At My Life’, and in 1990 was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy.