Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Eileen Agar NPG x32781

© Trevor Leighton / National Portrait Gallery, London

by Trevor Leighton

Born in Buenos Aires, Agar moved to London in 1909. From 1924 she went to Leon Underwood's Brook Green School of Art, whose radical approach to life-drawing attracted Henry Moore. She attended the Slade in 1922-6 and married a student, but in 1926 met her second husband, Hungarian writer Joseph Bard. In 1928 she lived in Paris with Bard and met André Breton and other Surrealists. In 1931 she financed and Bard edited The Island, a manifesto of the Underwood School.... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.