Eileen Agar (Buenos Aires, 1899 - London, 1991) The Muse Listening, circa 1940 Object consisting of a painted wooden lyre with strings, collage, shells and rope, topped by the body of a gilded carved wooden bird and an antique terracotta head. Annotated on a label on the back 49 x 29 x 4 cm Provenance : - Galerie 1900-2000, Paris - Collection Geneviève and Jean-Paul Kahn, Paris Exhibition : - Paris, Galerie 1900-2000, "Les enfants d'Alice", 1982, described in the catalogue under n°11 p. 93 and reproduced on p. 19 - Exeter, Exeter City Gallery and Exe gallery, The Enchanted Domain. Surrealist Art. 1 January 1967, catalogue no. 7. Bibliography : Whitney Chadwick, "Women in the Surrealist Movement", Ed. Thames and Hudson, 2002, reproduced in the catalogue p. 150, n°137