Eileen Agar: the reluctant surrealist

Exhibited in the 1930s alongside the work of friends Nash, Picasso, Breton and co, Eileen Agar’s singular collages, sculptures and paintings tell their own lyrical story in an eagerly awaited show opening later this monthBy a quirk of fate, and museum tastes, the British artist Eileen Agar is still best known for a single sculpture in the Tate collection: a magnetically outlandish male head titled Angel of Anarchy (c1936). Constructed from diamante, osprey feathers, cowrie shells and pirat