(1911 - 1992)
Max Dupain
Sunbaker, 1937 (printed later)
silver gelatin photograph
John Chalk, Queensland, acquired directly from the artist in 1990
Thence by descent
Private collection, Queensland
Max Dupain: A Retrospective 1930 – 1975, The Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, 21 October – 29 November 1975; and touring (another example)
The Thirties and Australia, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 19 June – 13 July 1980, cat. 101 (another example)
Max Dupain Retrospective 1930 – 1980, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 August – 28 September 1980, cat. 26 (another example)
Ten Years On, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, January 1986 (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, cat. 22 (another example)
Max Dupain – An Appreciation, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 11 – 30 August 1992 (another example)
Soft Shadows and Sharp Lines: Australian Photography from Cazneaux to Dupain, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 30 September – 17 November 2002 (another example)
On the Beach: with Whiteley and fellow Australian artists, The Brett Whiteley Studio, Sydney, 1 March – 29 June 2003 (another example)
Modern Times, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, 1 August 2008 – 8 February 2009 (another example)
Australia, The Royal Academy of Arts, London, 21 September – 8 December 2013 (another example)
The Photograph and Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 21 March – 8 June 2015; then touring to Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 4 July – 11 October 2015 (another example)
Under the sun: Reimagining Max Dupain’s Sunbaker, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, 6 May – 6 August 2017 (another example)
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 (illus., another example)
White, J., Smee, S. and Cawood, M., Dupain's Beaches, Chapter and Verse, Sydney, 2000, p. 69 (illus., another example)
Annear, J., The Photograph and Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2015, pp. 40, 50, 104 (illus., another example), 294