Eileen Agar

Note by Eileen Agar on how she made her artworks ‘The Obelisk of Satisfied Desire’ and ‘The Magician’

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Created by: Eileen Agar 1899–1991
Title: Note by Eileen Agar on how she made her artworks ‘The Obelisk of Satisfied Desire’ and ‘The Magician’
Date
Description: Attached to a typewritten page on the surrealist group in London, suitable subjects for art and sense of play in art
Format: Document - writings
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Bequeathed to Tate Archive by Eileen Agar, 1992.
Reference: TGA 9222/2/3/4

Romanticism Unit One Seven and Five Society British Surrealism Neo-Romanticism Surrealism British War Art Artists’ International Association

Archive context

Personal papers of and artworks by Eileen Agar TGA 9222 (239)
- Notebooks and writings TGA 9222/2 (11)
- - Writings by Eileen Agar TGA 9222/2/3 (7)
  - - Note by Eileen Agar on how she made her artworks ‘The Obelisk of Satisfied Desire’ and ‘The Magician’ TGA 9222/2/3/4