Max Dupain(1911-1992)Bondi, 1939
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Max Dupain (1911-1992)
signed and dated lower right: 'Max Dupain '39'
gelatin silver print
35.0 x 34.0cm (13 3/4 x 13 3/8in).
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PROVENANCE
Mr Ray Lawrence, Sydney, acquired from the artist c.1970
Private collection, Sydney
EXHIBITED
Max Dupain Retrospective 1930-1980, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 August – 28 September 1980 (another example)
On the Beach, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 8 December – 28 December 1982 (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)
On the Beach: with Whiteley and fellow Australian artists, The Brett Whiteley Studio, Surry Hills, 1 March – 29 June 2003 (another example)
Bondi: a biography, Museum of Sydney, 17 December 2005 – 19 March 2006 (another example)
LITERATURE
Gael Newton, Max Dupain Retrospective 1930-1980, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1980, cat no. 27 (illus., another example)
Linda Slutzkin, On the Beach, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1982, cat. 38, (illus., another example)
Max Dupain, Jill White, David Moore, Max Dupain, Print Room Press, Sydney, 1991, pl. 70 (illus., another example)
Sandra Byron, Fine and Mostly Sunny: photographs from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1991, cat. 23 (another example)
Jill White, Sebastian Smee, and Mathew Cawood, Dupain's Beaches, Chapter & Verse, Sydney, 2000, p. 41 (illus., another example)
Andrew Sayers, 'Order and transcendence: art between the wars 1919-39', in Australian Art, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001, p. 137, pl. 78 (another example)
Jill White, Frank Moorhouse, Dupain's Australia, Chapter & Verse, Sydney, 2003, p. 10 (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 (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