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• Auction House:
  Sotheby's Australia
• Sale Name:
  Collections: Important Asian, Australian & European Arts & Design, Including Property from the Estate of the Late Colleen McCullough AO
• Sale Date:
  30 Oct 2019 ~ 6pm (AEDT)
• Lot #:
  91
• Lot Description:
  Axel Poignant
  (1906-1986)
  Swagman 1953
  gelatin silver print, printed 1978
  40.5 x 30.5 (image); 50.5 x 40 (sheet)
  EXHIBITED: 'Six Photographers', David Jones Art Gallery, Sydney, 30 May - 6 June 1955, no. 145 (another example); 'Three Years On: Acquisitions 1978-81, Art Gallery of New South Wales', Sydney, 15 October - 1 December 1981, no. 34 (another example) ; 'Axel Poignant: Photographs 1922-1980', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 17 July - 29 August 1982, no. 74 (another example); 'D'un autre continent: l'Australie, la rÍve et le rÈel', MusÈe d'Art Modern de la Ville de Paris, 4 October - 4 December 1983 (label verso); 'Seeing Is Believing: The Art in Photography', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 December 1985 - 19 January 1986 (another example) ; 'Axel Poignant: Australien-Land Och M‰nniskor', Kulturhuset, Stockholm, 18 November 1988 - 9 January 1989 (another example) ; 'Masterpieces Of Australian Photography', Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney, 24 June - 22 July 1989, no. 325 (another example) ; 'Four Photographers', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2 June - 19 August 1990 (another example) ; 'Photographs From The Collection', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 30 March - 09 May 1993 (another example) ; 'Australian Post War Photo Documentary', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 June - 8 August 2004 (another example) ; 'Face to Face: An Exhibition of Portrait and Figurative Photography from the Albany Regional Gallery Collection', S H Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 29 January - 6 March 2005 (another example)
• Provenance:
  Axel Poignant, London; Gael Newton, Canberra, acquired from the above in 1979
• Notes:
  REFERENCES: Laurence Le Guay (ed), 'Australian Photography: A Contemporary View', James Coleman, Globe Publishing, Sydney, 1978, p. 11; Gael Newton, 'Silver and Grey: Fifty Years of Australian Photography, 1900-1950', Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1980, (illustrated plate 96, another example); Gael Newton, 'Axel Poignant: Photographs 1922-1980', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Beaver Press, Sydney, 1982, front cover (illustrated, another example); Joseph Lebovic, Joanne Cahill, Susette Cooke, 'Masterpieces of Australian Photography: Twentieth Century Photography', Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney, 1989, p. 183 (illustrated, another example); Roslyn Poignant, 'The Swagman's After Image', in Blair French (ed) 'Photo Files: An Australian Photography Reader', Power Publications and Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, 1999, pp. 107, 108 (Illustrated, another example), 116 ; Rose Peel, 'Australian Post-War Photo-Documentary', in Judy Annear (ed), 'Photography: Art Gallery of New South Wales Collection', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2007, pp. 194, 201 (illustrated, another example)
• Estimate:
  A$4,000 - 6,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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