Max Dupain
(1911 - 1992)
SYDNEY HARBOUR CREPUSCULE, 1937
silver gelatin photograph
34.0 x 49.0 cm (sight)
73.0 x 58.5 cm (frame)
signed and dated in image lower right: – Max Dupain ’37 –
Estimate:
$2,500 - $3,500
Sold:
$2,455 (inc. BP)
© Max Dupain/Copyright Agency 2020
lot details
73.0 x 58.5 cm (frame)
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
Dupain, M., Max Dupain’s Australia, Viking, Victoria, 1986, p. 35 (illus., another example)
Giles, P., Backgazing. Reverse Time in Modernist Culture, Oxford University Press, New York, 2019, fig. 3.1 (illus., another example)
Related Works
Other examples of this print are held in the collections of the NGV, NLA and the ANMM.

