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• Auction House:
  Bonhams Australia
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian Art
• Sale Date:
  24 Aug 2021 ~ 6pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  104
• Lot Description:
  Max Dupain
  (1911-1992)
  Sunbaker, 1937
  silver gelatin print
  38.0 x 43.0cm (14 15/16 x 16 15/16in).
  titled lower left: 'Sunbaker'; signed and dated lower right: 'Max Dupain '37'
  RELATED WORKS: Other examples of this image are held in the collections of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney and the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
• Provenance:
  Mr Ray Lawrence, Sydney, acquired from the artist c.1970; Private collection, Sydney
• Notes:
  EXHIBITED: The Thirties and Australia, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 19 June – 13 July 1980 (another example); Max Dupain Retrospective 1930-1980, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 August – 28 September 1980 (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 (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, Surry Hills, 1 March – 29 June 2003 (another example); Modern Times, Powerhouse Museum, Ultimo, 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). REFERENCES: Hal Missingham and Max Dupain, Max Dupain Photographs, Ure Smith, Sydney, 1948, pl. 7 (illus., another example); S.H. Ervin Gallery, The Thirties and Australia, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 1980, p. 18, cat. 101 (illus., another example); Gael Newton, Max Dupain retrospective 1930-1980, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1980, cat. 28 (illus., another example); Renee Free and Gael Newton, Onsight No. 7 – PROFILES, Sydney, 1984, p. 22 (illus., another example); Max Dupain, Max Dupain's Australia, Viking, Victoria, 1986, p. 104-5 (illus., another example); Sandra Byron, 'Photography', in Art Gallery of New South Wales Collection Handbook, Sydney, 1988, p. 127 (illus., 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. 150-51, cat. 262 (illus., another example); Sandra Byron, Fine and Mostly Sunny. Photographs from the Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1991, cat. 22 (another example); Robin Bruckner, Art and Design Book 1, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1995, p. 144 (illus., another example); Author Unknown, Workover News, Sydney, 1995 (illus. front cover, 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. 142-4, 146-7 (illus., another example); NAKADA Masaaki (ed.), Domo – Australian Living Handbook, Japan, 1999, p. 17, pl. 5 (illus., 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 (illus., another example); Robert McFarlane, 'Max Dupain', in Black + White – The Masters, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1999, p. 195 (illus., another example); Jill White, Sebastian Smee, and Mathew Cawood, Dupain's Beaches, Chapter & Verse, Sydney, 2000, pp.68-71 (illus. front cover, another example); Judith White, 'Sydney-side-on' in Look, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, April 2000, p. 28 (illus., another example); Leone Huntsman, 'The beach and popular culture' in Sand in our Souls, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 2001, pp. 141-2 (illus., 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. (illus., another example); Natasha Bullock, 'Soft and sharp. How Australian photography moved between two styles' in Look, Sydney, October 2002, p. 22 (illus., another example); Jill White, Frank Moorhouse, Dupain's Australia, Chapter & Verse, Sydney, 2003, p. 22 (illus., 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 (illus., another example); Helen Ennis, 'Localism and Internationalism' in Photography and Australia, Reaktion Books, London, 2007, pp. 112-14, pl. 64 (illus., another example); Judy Annear, The Photograph and Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2015, p. 271 (illus., another example)
• Estimate:
  A$30,000 - 50,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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