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)

Lot 13

Max Dupain

SYDNEY HARBOUR CREPUSCULE

, 1937

lot details

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 –
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

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.