Eileen Agar (Buenos Aires, 1899 - London, 1991) The... Lot 36

Eileen Agar (Buenos Aires, 1899 - London, 1991) The Muse Listening, circa 1940 Painted wood lyre, collage, shells, ropes, with a bird's shape in sculpted and gilded wood and an antique style head in terracotta Annotated on a label on the back 49 x 29 x 4 cm Provenance: - Galerie 1900-2000, Paris - Geneviève and Jean-Paul Kahn collection, Paris Exhibition: - Paris, Galerie 1900-2000, "Les enfants d'Alice", 1982, described in the catalogue under no.11 p. 93 and illustrated p. 19 - Exeter, Exeter City Gallery and Exe gallery, The Enchanted Domain. Surrealist Art. 1 January 1967, described in the catalogue under no.7 Bibliography: Whitney Chadwick, "Les femmes dans le mouvement surrealiste", Ed. Thames and Hudson, 2002, illustrated in the catalogue p. 150, n137