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This early example of Agar’s collage work, made while a member of the London Group, evidences her independent development of Modernist practices and experimentation with techniques traditionally associated with Surrealism, before exhibiting with the movement at the International Surrealist Exhibition, London, in 1936. The collage features a card on which the artist’s address is written, rooting the object in her personal experience. In her 1988 autobiography A Look at My Life (pp. 93-4), Agar describes that around the time she moved to that flat, she received a human skull (used for anatomy lessons) in the post, which she decorated the skull with gold paint and seashells. Agar associated this memory with her development of a found object practice influenced by Surrealism. The title of this work, ‘Artist Rampant’ confirms this self-reference and connects the theme of postage to a sense of freedom and boundless travel. The central red figure depicted in this work also appears on the letterhead of Agar’s stationary, examples of which can now be seen in her archive at Tate.","physicalDescription":"Collage on address card. The artist’s name, address and other details are written with black oil paint on thick beige card. A torn label from ‘Sutton & Co London’, a courier’s firm, is fixed to the upper right-hand corner. In the centre, torn paper collage elements are layered, depicting a red and white patterned figure. The area of the figure’s face has been cut-out to reveal the letters ‘R’ and ‘P’ on blue paper. 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