Max Dupain (1911 - 1992)

KEROSENE LAMP, 1935 (later print 1980s)

silver gelatin photograph

37.9 x 29.5 cm

signed and dated lower right: - Max Dupain - '35
inscribed with title on mount: Kerosene Lamp
signed, dated and inscribed with title on mount verso: "Kerosene Lamp" / - Max Dupain '35 -

The Estate of Joyce Evans, Melbourne

Max Dupain Retrospective 1930-1980, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 August – 28 September 1980
Four Photographers, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2 June –19 August 1990
Soft Shadows and Sharp Lines: Australian photography from Cazneaux to Dupain, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 30 September – 17 November 2002

Newton, G., Max Dupain: Photographs 1928 – 80, The David Ell Press, Sydney, 1980, cat. 6, pp. 42, 122 (illus., another example)
Batchen, G., Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History, MIT Press, Cambridge, 2001, p. 97
Bullock, N., Soft Shadows and Sharp Lines: Australian Photography from Cazneaux to Dupain, Sydney, 2002, n.p. (illus., another example)

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