The Archer
Agar was one of the few women artists who exhibited with the Surrealists both in Britain and abroad. Born in Argentina to British parents she came to England as a girl and trained at the Slade School of Art, as well as in Paris during the 1920s. Her work was selected by Roland Penrose and Herbert Read for the International Surrealist Exhibition at the New Burlington Galleries in London in 1936. A year later she was visiting amongst others; Picasso, Paul Eluard and Man Ray, as well as Penrose himself. This modest study made later in her career retains a Surrealist mood in terms of its imaginative combination of semi-abstract imagery with an other-worldly palette.
