Max Dupain(1911-1992)At Newport, 1952
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Max Dupain (1911-1992)
titled lower left: 'At Newport'; signed and dated lower right: 'Max Dupain, '52'
gelatin silver print
40.0 x 48.0cm (15 3/4 x 18 7/8in).
Footnotes
PROVENANCE
Mr Ray Lawrence, Sydney, acquired from the artist c.1970
Private collection, Sydney
EXHIBITED
Three years on: acquisitions 1978-81, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 October – 1 December 1981 (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 - 30 August 1992 (another example)
Celebrating Paradise – The artist and the Northern Beaches: 1890-2000, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Manly, 10 December 1999 – 30 January 2000 (another example)
Australia Postwar Photodocumentary, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 June – 8 August 2004 (another example)
Great Collections, Western Plains Cultural Centre, 3 April – 10 May 2009, Albury Regional Gallery, Albury, 29 May – 5 July 2009 (another example)
LITERATURE
Gael Newton, Max Dupain Retrospective 1930-1980, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1980, cat. 48, (illus. front cover, another example)
Gael Newton, 'Photography – Australia, European and American', in Three Years on: a selection of acquisitions 1978-1981, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1981, p. 75, cat. 18 (illus., another example)
Max Dupain, Max Dupain's Australia, Viking, Victoria, 1986, p. 157 (illus., another example)
Sam Neill, Celebrity Choice: Sam Neill, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1987, no pagination (illus., another example)
Max Dupain, Jill White, and David Moore, Max Dupain, Print Room Press, Sydney, 1991, pl. 72 (illus., another example)
Sandra Byron, Fine and Mostly Sunny: photographs from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1991, cat. 21 (illus., another example)
Katherine Roberts and Heather Johnson, Celebrating Paradise – the artist and the Northern Beaches: 1890 to 2000, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Manly, 1999, p. 20 (illus., another example)
Jill White, Sebastian Smee, and Mathew Cawood, Dupain's Beaches, Chapter and Verse, Sydney, 2000, p. 19 (illus., another example)
Jill White and Frank Moorhouse, Dupain's Australia, Chapter and Verse, Sydney, 2003, p. 11 (illus., another example)
Natasha Bullock, Australian Postwar Photodocumentary, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2004, no pagination (illus., another example)
Rose Peel, 'Australian postwar photodocumentary', in Photography: Art Gallery of New South Wales Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2007, p. 195 (illus., another example)
John McPhee, Great Collections, Museums and Galleries NSW, Sydney, 2008, p. 101 (illus., another example)
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