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UPDATED EVERY FRIDAY
Last Update:
Friday 28th January, 2005
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New Journal Enterprises, 2004.
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‘Dangerous’ artist is remembered
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CONROY Maddox, the 1930s surrealist painter who lived in Lambolle
Road, Hampstead, for nearly 40 years, has died at the age of 92.
A man known for his forceful views, he earned for himself a place
in the history of British art. His major pictures – he is represented
in Tate Britain – are now worth more than the currently under-priced
sums of up to £10,000.
Born in Ledbury, Herefordshire, the son of a seed merchant, Maddox
abhorred war: he escaped conflict during World War II by working
as a draughtsman in a Birmingham aircraft factory.
It was in Birmingham he discovered surrealism, reading the books
of the art critic R H Wilenski and, while he earned a living in
the world of advertising, he developed his surrealist art, particularly
after meeting Salvador Dali, about whom he wrote and lectured.
In the late 1930s he was invited to exhibit alongside other surrealists
at the Cork Street galleries of Guggenheim Jeune. He also made it
to Paris, where he met and was influenced by the work of the photographer
Man Ray.
As the critic Silvano Levy records: “In 1945 some of his collages
were seized by Scotland Yard’s Special Branch on suspicion
of being dangerous to the war effort.”
He married Nan Burton in 1948 and had a son, whose early death distressed
him, and a daughter who survives him.
He divorced in 1955 and enjoyed good health in his Hampstead home
until a stroke last year undermined his health.
An old friend jazz-singer and art-collector George Melly and painter
Patrich Hughes spoke his funeral at Golders Green Crematorium last
Friday.
MICHAEL MANN
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