Eileen Agar (Buenos Aires, 1899 - London, 1991)
The Muse Listening, circa 1940
Painted wood lyre, collage, shells, ropes, with a bird's shape in sculpted and gilded wood and an antique style head in terracotta
Annotated on a label on the back
49 x 29 x 4 cm
Provenance:
- Galerie 1900-2000, Paris
- Geneviève and Jean-Paul Kahn collection, Paris
Exhibition:
- Paris, Galerie 1900-2000, "Les enfants d'Alice", 1982, described in the catalogue under no.11 p. 93 and illustrated p. 19
- Exeter, Exeter City Gallery and Exe gallery, The Enchanted Domain. Surrealist Art. 1 January 1967, described in the catalogue under no.7
Bibliography:
Whitney Chadwick, "Les femmes dans le mouvement surrealiste", Ed. Thames and Hudson, 2002, illustrated in the catalogue p. 150, n137
