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Lot 9AR
EILEEN AGAR(1899-1991)The Guardians of the Shrine
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EILEEN AGAR (1899-1991)
The Guardians of the Shrine
signed and dated 'Agar 1987' (lower right)
pencil, watercolour and paper collage on paper
18 x 24cm (7 1/16 x 9 7/16in).
Executed in 1987
signed and dated 'Agar 1987' (lower right)
pencil, watercolour and paper collage on paper
18 x 24cm (7 1/16 x 9 7/16in).
Executed in 1987
Footnotes
Provenance
Allen and Beryl Freer collection, UK (acquired directly from the artist); their sale, Chiswick Auctions, London, 25 February 2021, lot 8.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Exhibited
Chichester, Pallant House Gallery, Eileen Agar: An Eye for Collage, 25 October 2008 - 15 March 2009, no. 70 (illustrated p. 118).
London, Whitechapel Gallery, Eileen Agar: The Angel of Anarchy, 19 May - 29 August 2021, fig. 178 (illustrated p. 216-7) (and later travelled to Halmstad, Mjellby Konstmuseum; Leeds, Leeds Art Gallery).