The Sower
Born in Argentina, Agar came to England as a young child. She studied with Leon Underwood and attended the Slade School of Fine Art. A painter and photographer, she was associated strongly with the Surrealist movement. In the 1930s she explored themes of life, death, the passing of time and seasonal cycles. In this dream-like image, the sower can be seen as a metaphor for the beginning of life, sowing the seeds which will bring forth the crops. 'The Reaper', 1938, in the collection of the Tate, depicts a highly mechanised and abstracted reaping machine superimposed with a collage of a pressed, dry leaf, the last part of the process and the symbolic end of life.
1937
Watercolour and gouache
54.0 x 38.0cm
411
© The Artist's Estate / All Rights Reserved, 2019 / Bridgeman Images
This work is part of The Ingram Collection of Modern British & Contemporary Art.
This work is part of The Ingram Collection of Modern British & Contemporary Art.
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Eileen Agar, The Sower
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