Max Dupain(1911-1992)Impassioned Clay, 1936
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Max Dupain (1911-1992)
signed and dated lower left: 'Max Dupain '36'
titled on label verso: 'Impassioned Clay'
silver gelatin photograph, printed later
46.0 x 32.5cm (18 1/8 x 12 13/16in).
Footnotes
PROVENANCE
Private collection, Sydney
Deutscher and Hackett, Sydney, 2 May 2012, lot 100
Private collection, Queensland
EXHIBITED
Max Dupain Retrospective 1930-1980, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 August – 28 September 1980 (another example)
Four Photographers, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2 June – 19 August 1990 (another example)
LITERATURE
Gael Newton, Max Dupain Retrospective 1930-1980, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1980, cat. 21 (illus., another example)
Sandra Jane, Art is ... making, creating and appreciating 2, Milton, 1999, p. 224 (illus., another example)
Valerie Hill, 'The wheel of life 1930s-1990s', in The Cazneaux Women, Craftsman House, Sydney, 2000, p. 116 (another example)
Sandra Jane, 'A close-up look at significant photographers', in Photography Production and Appreciation, Jacaranda Press, Queensland, 1996, p. 205, fig. 12.4c (another example)
RELATED WORK
Other examples of this print are held in the collections of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney and the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra