Eileen Agar, R.A. (1899-1991)
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Eileen Agar, R.A. (1899-1991)

Woman Clad with Leaves

Details
Eileen Agar, R.A. (1899-1991)
Woman Clad with Leaves
signed and dated 'AGAR/1934' (lower right)
ink, watercolour, gouache, collage and leaves on paper
7 x 10 in. (17.5 x 25.5 cm.)
Executed in 1934.
Provenance
Purchased directly from the artist by the present owner.
Literature
Exhibition Catalogue, Eileen Agar 1899-1991: A Centenary Exhibition, Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, 1999, p. 75, no. 21, illustrated.
M. Remy, Eileen Agar: Dreaming oneself awake, London, 2017, p. 59.
Exhibited
Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Eileen Agar 1899-1991: A Centenary Exhibition, December 1999 - February 2000, no. 21: this exhibition travelled to Leeds, City Art Gallery, March - April 2000.
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.

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Lot Essay

One of Eileen's earliest collage pictures - a sensitive and lyrical composition - the Henry Moore-like form of the woman stencilled and made personal - unique even - by the use of the two chestnut leaves just touched by indigo paint. Only Eileen could have conceived it.
Allen Freer.

`Woman Clad with Leaves was probably one of Agar's very first collages, especially collages made with actual leaves - earlier on, she had chanced upon a book containing dried leaves. The link is clearly established between woman and nature. The collage, framed with a winding line, presents us with a kind of bird-like form, which watches lines unrolling from the leaves and covering what appears to be a spread-eagled feminine shape' (M. Remy, Eileen Agar: Dreaming oneself awake, London, 2017, p. 59).


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