Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (1899-1991)

Eileen Agar

Flowering of a Wing, 1966

Oil and acrylic on canvas
© Eileen Agar. Photo by Pratik Parulekar.

Eileen Agar. Courtesy of AWARE.

“Paintings … germinate like a seed; in the dark soil and recesses of the living coral of the mind… They grow like a plant, slowly putting out shoots, they need pruning, meditating on, while the roots grow in the dark.”

—Eileen Agar