Max Dupain (1911 - 1992)

EGGS, 1933 (later print 1970s)

silver gelatin photograph

18.0 x 15.5 cm (image)
21.0 x 16.0 cm (sheet)

dated and inscribed with title verso: EGGS '33
photographer's stamp verso

The Estate of Joyce Evans, Melbourne

Four Photographers, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2 June – 19 August 1990 (another example)
Max Dupain: An Appreciation, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 11 – 30 August 1992 (another example)
The Enigmatic Object: Photography and The Uncanny, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 April – 22 June 1997 (another example)
Sydney Moderns: Art For A New World, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 6 July – 7 October 2013

Newton, G., Max Dupain: Photographs 1928 – 80, The David Ell Press, Sydney, 1980, cat. 7, pp. 43, 122 (illus., another example)
‘Photography: Towards a Dialogue With Other Media’, Australian Art Review, Sydney, October 1982, p. 46 (illus., another example)
Annear, J., The Enigmatic Object: Photography and The Uncanny, (exhibition catalogue) Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1997
Batchen, G., Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History, MIT Press, Cambridge, 2001, p. 97 (another example)
Mimmocchi, D., Sydney Moderns: Art For A New World, (exhibition catalogue), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2013, pp. 152 (illus., another example)

Other examples of this photograph are held in the collections of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne and the State Library of New South Wales, Sydney