Lot 35
  • 35

Eileen Agar

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Description

  • Eileen Agar
  • The Wings of Augury
  • Mixed media assemblage
  • Height: 12 1/2 in.
  • 31.8 cm

Provenance

The artist, United Kingdom
Virginia Zabriskie, New York (acquired from the above)
Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above in 1986)

Exhibited

London, New Burlington Galleries, International Surrealist Exhibition, 1936
New York, Zabriskie Gallery, 1936, Surrealist Objects, 1986, illustrated in the catalogue
New York, Baruch College Gallery, Women Artists of the Surrealist Movement, 1986

Literature

Whitney Chadwick, Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement, London, 1985, no. 136, illustrated p. 150

Condition


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