15
Max Dupain 'Sunbaker'
Estimate:
$35,000 - $55,000
Passed
Live Auction
203 'The world is a strange place' - The Grant Kerr Photography Collection
ARTIST
Max Dupain
Description
Max Dupain (Australia, 1911-1992)
Sunbaker
gelatin silver print (taken in 1937, printed in 1980s)
original blind stamp applied verso; authenticated and signed by the artist’s son, Rex Dupain verso
470 x 525mm
Literature: G. Newton, Max Dupain: Photographs 1928-80 (The David Ell Press, Sydney, 1980), p. 64.
Max Dupain’s Australia (Viking Press, Sydney, 1986), p. 104.
H. Ennis, Max Dupain: Photographs (National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1991), p. 18.
J. White, S. Smee and M. Cawood, Dupain’s Beaches (Chapter and Verse, Sydney, 2000), p. 69.
J. Annear, The Photograph and Australia (Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2015) pp. 40, 50, 104, 294.
Provenance: Private collection. Purchased from Josef Lebovic Gallery, Melbourne Art Fair, 2004.
Grant Kerr Collection. Purchased from Art+Object, Auckland, 26 November, 2015, Lot No. 82.
Collection: Editions of this photograph are held in the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, The Art Gallery of Sydney, Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Australia, National Gallery of Australia.
Sunbaker
gelatin silver print (taken in 1937, printed in 1980s)
original blind stamp applied verso; authenticated and signed by the artist’s son, Rex Dupain verso
470 x 525mm
Literature: G. Newton, Max Dupain: Photographs 1928-80 (The David Ell Press, Sydney, 1980), p. 64.
Max Dupain’s Australia (Viking Press, Sydney, 1986), p. 104.
H. Ennis, Max Dupain: Photographs (National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1991), p. 18.
J. White, S. Smee and M. Cawood, Dupain’s Beaches (Chapter and Verse, Sydney, 2000), p. 69.
J. Annear, The Photograph and Australia (Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2015) pp. 40, 50, 104, 294.
Provenance: Private collection. Purchased from Josef Lebovic Gallery, Melbourne Art Fair, 2004.
Grant Kerr Collection. Purchased from Art+Object, Auckland, 26 November, 2015, Lot No. 82.
Collection: Editions of this photograph are held in the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, The Art Gallery of Sydney, Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Australia, National Gallery of Australia.
Condition
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