Max Dupain (1911 - 1992)

Little nude, 1938

silver gelatin photograph

48.0 x 35.5 cm
61.5 x 51.0 cm (frame)

signed and dated in image lower right: Max Dupain '38
inscribed with title below image lower left: Little nude

Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
Private collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above in 1991

Max Dupain Retrospective 1930-1980, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 August – 28 September 1980, cat. 35 (another example, as ‘Nude’)
Seeing is believing – the art in photography, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 December 1985 – 19 January 1986, cat. 14 (another example, as ‘Nude’)
Celebrity Choice – Sam Neill, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 8 January – 8 February 1987 (another example, as ‘Nude’)
Four Photographers, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2 June – 19 August 1990 (another example, as ‘Nude’)
Max Dupain – An Appreciation, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 11 – 30 August 1992 (another example, as ‘Nude’)
Critic’s Choice, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 22 April – 10 July 1994 (another example, as ‘Nude’)
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, as ‘Nude’)
The photograph and Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 21 March – 8 June 2015; Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 4 July – 11 October 2015 (another example, as ‘Nude’)
Public Image, Private Lives: Family, Friends and Self in Photography, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 5 February – 18 September 2016 (another example, as ‘Nude’)
Man Ray and Max Dupain, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 6 August – 9 November 2025, cat. 179 (another example)

Dupain, M., Max Dupain’s Australia, Viking, Victoria, 1986, p. 108 (illus., another example)
Dupain, M., Max Dupain, Print Room Press, Sydney, 1991, pl. 69 (illus., another example)
McFarlane, R., Black + White – The Masters, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1999, p. 205 (illus., another example)
White, J., Dupain’s Australians, Chapter and Verse, Sydney, 2003, p. 51 (illus., another example)
Annear, J., The Photograph and Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2015, p. 271 (illus., another example)
Robb, L., Versus Rodin: Bodies across space and time, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2017
Harding, L., Man Ray and Max Dupain, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2025, p. 230 (illus., another example)

Other examples of this photograph are held in the collections of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney and the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane