Sailors in Toulon

Details

Eileen Agar, R.A. (1899-1991)
Sailors in Toulon
signed 'AGAR' (lower left)
pencil, pastel, ink and gouache
14½ x 19½ in. (36.8 x 49.5 cm.)
Executed circa 1939.

Provenance

with Waterman Fine Art, London, where purchased by the present owner.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

Lot Essay

'When I look back on the year before the outbreak of the war, I remember it as a time of uncertainty and apprehension, dismay and despair, mixed with determination that life should be as full as possible... In the spring of 1939 we [Joseph and I] went to France, determined to have a last fling on the Mediterranean coast. We were also pretty hard up and it was cheaper to live in France than London... We rented a flat with one large room just outside Toulon.' (E. Agar, A look at my life, London, 1988, p. 143).
It has been suggested that the figure with his hand behind his back is Agar's second husband, Professor Joseph Bard.

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