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• Auction House:
  Smith & Singer
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian Art
• Sale Date:
  24 Aug 2022 ~ 6.30pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  65
• Lot Description:
  Max Dupain
  (1911-1992)
  Sunbaker (1937, printed later)
  gelatin silver print on paper
  38 x 40 cm
  signed and dated '- Max Dupain '37 -' lower right
  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)
• Provenance:
  Max Dupain, Sydney; Private Collection, Sydney and New York; Private Collection, New York, by descent from the above
• Notes:
  REFERENCES: 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 (illus., 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)
• Estimate:
  A$40,000 - 60,000
• Realised Price:
  *****
  

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• Category:
  Art

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