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)

Lot 14

Max Dupain

MANLY

, 1938 (also known as 'MANLY BEACH')

lot details

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
Provenance

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.