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
