MAX DUPAIN
1911-1992

MAX DUPAIN

1911-1992
Sunbaker (1937, printed later)

silver gelatin print on paper
signed and dated '- Max Dupain '37 -' lower right
38 x 40 cm

• Lot Sold $50,000 (Hammer Price)
• $61,364 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Max Dupain, Sydney Private Collection, Sydney

Exhibited

The Thirties and Australia, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 19 June - 13 July 1980, no. 101, illustrated (another example)
Max Dupain Retrospective 1930-1980, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 August - 28 September 1980, no. 28, illustrated (another example)
Ten Years on, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, January 1986 (another example)
Celebrity Choice - Sam Neill, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 8 January - 8 February 1987 (another example)
Four Photographers, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2 June - 19 August 1990 (another example)
Fine and Mostly Sunny: Photographs from the Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 28 September - 1 December 1991, no. 22 (another example)
Max Dupain - An Appreciation, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 11 August 1992 - 30 August 1992 (another example)
Soft Shadows and Sharp Lines: Australian Photography from Cazneaux to Dupain, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 30 September - 17 November 2002 (another example)
On the Beach: With Whiteley and Fellow Australian Artists, The Brett Whiteley Studio, Sydney, 1 March - 29 June 2003 (another example)
Modern Times, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, 1 August 2008 - 8 February 2009 (another example)
The Photograph and Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 21 March - 8 June 2015; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 4 July 2015 - 11 October 2015 (another example)

Literature

Hal Missingham and Max Dupain, Max Dupain Photographs, Ure Smith, Sydney, 1948, plate 7 (illustrated, another example)
The Thirties and Australia, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 1980, p. 18 (illustrated, another example)
Gael Newton, Max Dupain Retrospective 1930-1980, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1980, (illustrated, another example)
Max Dupain, Max Dupain's Australia, Viking, Melbourne, 1986, pp. 104-105 (illustrated, another example)
Sandra Byron, 'Photography', in Art Gallery of New South Wales Collection Handbook, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1988, p. 127 (illustrated, another example)
Joseph Lebovic Gallery and Helen Ennis, 'Twentieth Century Photography', in Masterpieces of Australian Photography, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1989, pp. 150-151, (illustrated, another example)
Robin Bruckner, Art and Design Book 1, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1995, p. 144 (illustrated, another example)
Gael Newton, 'It was a Simple Affair: Max Dupain Sunbaker', in Brought to Light: Australian Art 1850-1965 from the Queensland Art Gallery Collection, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 1998, pp. 142-144, 146-147 (illustrated, another example)
Bruce James, 'Australian Collection: Australian Photography', in Art Gallery of New South Wales Handbook, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1999, p. 204 (illustrated, another example)
Robert McFarlane, 'Max Dupain', in Black + White - The Masters, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1999, p. 195 (illustrated, another example)
Jill White, Sebastian Smee, and Mathew Cawood, Dupain's Beaches, Chapter & Verse, Sydney, 2000, cover (illustrated, another example), pp. 68-71 (illustrated, another example)
Natasha Bullock, Soft Shadows and Sharp Lines: Australian Photography from Cazneaux to Dupain, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2002, n.p. (illustrated, another example)
Jill White and Frank Moorhouse, Dupain's Australia, Chapter & Verse, Sydney, 2003, p. 22 (illustrated, another example)
Judy Annear, 'Australian Modernism', in Photography: Art Gallery of New South Wales Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2007, pp. 136, 142, 195 (illustrated, another example)
Helen Ennis, 'Localism and Internationalism', in Photography and Australia, Reaktion Books, London, 2007, pp. 112-114, plate 64 (illustrated, another example)
Judy Annear, The Photograph and Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2015, p. 271 (illustrated, another example)