Eileen Agar
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Art Work
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Eileen Agar |
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| Place of Birth: |
Buenos-Aires |
| Nationality: |
British |
| Birth: |
1899 |
| Death: |
1991 |
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Painter, Photographer |
| Style: |
Surrealism |
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Biography
| Eileen Agar was a British painter and photographer associated with the Surrealist movement. Born in Buenos-Aires to a Scottish father and American mother, she moved with her family to London in 1911. After attending Heathfield St Mary's School, she studied, beginning in 1919, at the Byam Shaw School of Fine Art. Then, in 1924, she studied under Leon Underwood (1890–1975). She attended the Slade School of Fine Art in London from 1925 to 1926. She also studied art in Paris from 1928 to 1930. |
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