1930, Eileen Agar, Three Symbols -- Tate Modern (London)
From the museum label: This painting includes structures from three eras: an ancient Greek column, a medieval Gothic cathedral (Notre Dame, Paris) and a modern wrought iron bridge. Agar claimed that this flight of imagination was the first work in which she began to move towards a more surrealist style of painting. She and her future husband, the writer Joseph Bard, were living in Paris in 1930. It was there that they met the surrealist artist André Breton and poet Paul Eluard. Agar later recalled that they were among the painters and poets giving the 'kiss of life' to surrealism, 'that sleeping beauty troubled by nightmares'.
1930, Eileen Agar, Three Symbols -- Tate Modern (London)
From the museum label: This painting includes structures from three eras: an ancient Greek column, a medieval Gothic cathedral (Notre Dame, Paris) and a modern wrought iron bridge. Agar claimed that this flight of imagination was the first work in which she began to move towards a more surrealist style of painting. She and her future husband, the writer Joseph Bard, were living in Paris in 1930. It was there that they met the surrealist artist André Breton and poet Paul Eluard. Agar later recalled that they were among the painters and poets giving the 'kiss of life' to surrealism, 'that sleeping beauty troubled by nightmares'.