Max Dupain
(1911 - 1992)
MANLY, 1938 (also known as 'MANLY BEACH')
silver gelatin photograph
39.5 x 37.5 cm (sight)
64.0 x 61.5 cm (frame)
signed and dated in image lower right: – Max Dupain ’38 –
bears inscription verso: 36
Estimate:
$1,800 - $2,800
Sold:
$1,718 (inc. BP)
© Max Dupain/Copyright Agency 2020
lot details
64.0 x 61.5 cm (frame)
bears inscription verso: 36
Pat Corrigan Collection, Sydney
Exhibited
Max Dupain Retrospective 1930-1980, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 August – 28 September 1980, cat. 26 (another example)
The Enduring Glance: 20th Century Australian Photography from the Corrigan Collection, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, 22 June – 28 July 2002, cat. 36
SOUL OF A CITY: Modernism and Sydney Photography 1930 to 1950, Delmar Gallery, Sydney, 17 May – 15 June 2014
Literature
Newton, G., Max Dupain: Photographs 1928-80, The David Ell Press, Sydney, 1980, p. 62 (illus., another example)
Dupain, M., Max Dupain’s Australia, Viking, Victoria, 1986, p.156 (illus., another example)
Smee, S., ‘Body Language’, The Weekend Australian, 18 – 19 December 2004 (illus., another example)
Related Works
Other examples of this photograph are held in the collections of the NGA, ANMM and the NGV.

