SUNBAKER, 1937

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Melbourne
29 August 2012
98

MAX DUPAIN

(1911 - 1992)
SUNBAKER, 1937

printed 1970s
silver gelatin photograph

37.5 x 43.0 cm

signed and dated lower right: - Max Dupain ‘37 - titled below image
signed, dated and titled verso: “Sunbaker” / - Max Dupain ‘37 -

Estimate: 
$16,000 - 20,000
Sold for $22,800 (inc. BP) in Auction 26 - 29 August 2012, Melbourne
Provenance

Sotheby's, Melbourne, 5 October 2004, lot 154
Private collection, Melbourne

Literature

Newton, G., Max Dupain: Photographs 1928 – 80, The David Ell Press, Sydney, 1980, p. 64 (illus., another example)
Max Dupain's Australia, Viking Press, Sydney, 1986, p. 104 (illus., another example)
Ennis, H., Max Dupain: Photographs, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1991, p. 18
White, J., Smee, S. and Cawood, M., Dupain's Beaches, Chapter and Verse, Sydney, 2000, p. 69 (illus., another example)