Max Dupain
(1911 - 1992)
SILOS THROUGH WINDSCREEN, 1965
silver gelatin photograph
38.5 x 42.5 cm (photograph)
51.0 x 61.5 cm (frame)
signed and dated in image lower right: Max Dupain '65
inscribed with title lower left: silos through windscreen
Estimate:
$4,000 - $6,000
Sold:
$6,750 (inc. BP)
© Max Dupain/Copyright Agency 2023
lot details
51.0 x 61.5 cm (frame)
inscribed with title lower left: silos through windscreen
Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
Private collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above in the 1980s
Exhibited
Max Dupain Retrospective 1930-1980, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 August – 28 September 1980 (another example)
My city of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2 September – 22 October 2000 (another example)
Federation: Australian Art and Society 1901 – 2001, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 8 December 2000 – 11 February 2001, and touring (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)
Inside Sydney: Photographs by Max & Rex Dupain, Museum of Sydney, Sydney, 28 August – 5 December 2004 (another example)
Sydney Moderns, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 6 July – 7 October 2013 (another example, illus, in exhibition catalogue, p. 185)
Literature
Williams, J., The Quarantined Culture: Australian Reactions to Modernism, 1913-1939, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995, pl.1, p. 14 (illus., another example, and cover)
Newton, G., Max Dupain, The David Ell Press, Sydney, 1980, cat. 9, p. 45 (illus., another example)
King, R., Max Dupain, Printroom Press, Sydney, 1991, p. 30 (illus., another example)
Federation: Australian Art and Society 1901 – 2001, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2000, p. 118 (illus., another example)
Related Works
Other examples of this photograph are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
This work is located in our Melbourne Gallery
Condition:
This work is in excellent, stable and near original condition.
The photographic sheet is laid onto an archival mount to the artist’s specification.
The photographic paper sheet has discoloured lightly and evenly over time.
This work is housed in a black timber frame.


