Max Dupain (1911 - 1992)

Jean with wire mesh, 1938

silver gelatin photograph

48.5 x 34.5 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: Jean with wire mesh

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

The Enduring Glance: 20th Century Australian Photography from the Corrigan Collection, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, 22 June – 28 July 2002, cat. 22 (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, illus. in exhibition catalogue, p. 140)
Max Dupain’s Australians, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 July 2003 – 1 February 2004 (another example)
Soul of a City: Modernism and Sydney Photography 1930 to 1950, Delmar Gallery, Sydney, 17 May – 15 June 2014 (another example)
Versus Rodin: Bodies across Space and Time, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 4 March – 16 July 2017 (another example)
Robert Wilson: Moving Portraits, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 9 July – 3 October 2022 (another example)
Man Ray and Max Dupain, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 6 August – 9 November 2025, cat. 142 (another example)

The Home: an Australian Quarterly, Art in Australia, Sydney, vol. 17, no. 2, 1 February 1936, p. 57 (illus., another example, as ‘Photographic Study’)
Dupain, M., Max Dupain, Print Room Press, Sydney, 1991, pl. 79 (illus., another example)
McFarlane, R., Black + White – The Masters, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1999, p. 200 (illus., another example)
White, J., Dupain’s Australians, Chapter and Verse, Sydney, 2003, p. 57 (illus., another example)
Max Dupain’s Australians, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, 2003, front cover (illus., another example)
Annear, J., Photography: Art Gallery of New South Wales Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2007, pp. 136, 140 (illus., another example)
Devenport, R., et al., AGSA 500, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2024 (another example)
Harding, L., Man Ray and Max Dupain, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2025, pp. 33, 35 (illus., another example), 227 (illus., another example)

Jean with wire mesh (eyes open), c.1935, gelatin silver photograph, 50.8 x 40.6 cm, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Other examples of this photograph are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane and the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide