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PROPERTY FROM THE PAUL CONRAN COLLECTION
Lot 11AR

CONROY MADDOX
(1912-2005)
Onanistic Typewriter II

8 March 2022, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£5,000 - £7,000

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CONROY MADDOX (1912-2005)

Onanistic Typewriter II
signed and dated 'CONROY MADDOX 1940/90' (left-hand side)
painted typewriter, tacks and copy paper
25.7 cm. (10 1/8 in/) high

Footnotes

Provenance
The artist's collection.
Private collection, UK (acquired from the above in 1990).

Exhibited
London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, British Surrealism, 26 February - 17 May 2020 (another example exhibited).

Literature
S. Levy, The Scandalous Eye: The Surrealism of Conroy Maddox, Liverpool, 2003 (another example illustrated p. 62).
M. Hollein (ed.), Surreal Objects: Three Dimensional Works from Dali to Man Ray, Ostfildern, 2011 (another example illustrated p. 181).
J. Scott (ed.), British Surrealism, London, 2020 (another example illustrated pp. 104-105).

Maddox intended to create an edition of 10 after Onanistic Typewriter I (1940), however only two were eventually made, the present example in 1990, and another in 1991.

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