Max Dupain

(1911 - 1992)

MOSMAN BAY AT DUSK, 1937

silver gelatin photograph

34.5 x 49.0 cm (sight)
60.0 x 73.5 cm (frame)

signed and dated in image lower right: - Max Dupain ’37 –
bears inscription verso: Cremorne

Estimate:
$3,000 - $5,000

Sold:
$2,945 (inc. BP)

Lot 12

Max Dupain

MOSMAN BAY AT DUSK

, 1937

lot details

Max Dupain (1911 - 1992)
MOSMAN BAY AT DUSK, 1937
silver gelatin photograph
34.5 x 49.0 cm (sight)
60.0 x 73.5 cm (frame)
signed and dated in image lower right: - Max Dupain ’37 –
bears inscription verso: Cremorne
Provenance

Pat Corrigan Collection, Sydney

Exhibited

The Enduring Glance: 20th Century Australian Photography from the Corrigan Collection, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, 22 June – 28 July 2002
SOUL OF A CITY: Modernism and Sydney Photography 1930 to 1950, Delmar Gallery, Sydney, 17 May – 15 June 2014

Literature

Giles, P., Backgazing. Reverse Time in Modernist Culture, Oxford University Press, New York, 2019, fig. 3.2 (illus., another example)

Related Works

Other examples of this print are held in the collections of the NGV, NGA, AGSA and the NLA.