Max Dupain (1911 - 1992)

MEAT QUEUE, 1946

silver gelatin photograph

32.5 x 49.5 cm (sight)
59.5 x 79.5 cm (frame)

signed and dated in image lower right: – Max Dupain ’46 –

Deutscher~Menzies, Sydney, 23 September 2009, lot 24
Pat Corrigan Collection, Sydney

Max Dupain Retrospective 1930-1980, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 August – 28 September 1980 (another example)
Four Photographers, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2 June – 19 August 1990 (another example)
Federation: Australian Art and Society 1901 – 2001, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 8 December 2000 – 11 February 2001, and touring (another example)
Australia Postwar Photodocumentary, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 June – 8 August 2004 (another example)
SOUL OF A CITY: Modernism and Sydney Photography 1930 to 1950, Delmar Gallery, Sydney, 17 May – 15 June 2014
After the War, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 8 October 2018 – 8 October 2019 (another example)

Newton, G., Max Dupain: Photographs 1928-80, The David Ell Press, Sydney, 1980 , cat. 68, p. 92 (illus., another example)
Newton, G. (et al), Silver and Grey: Fifty Years of Australian Photography 1900 -1950, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1980, pl.94
Federation: Australian Art and Society 1901 – 2001, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2000, p. 105 (illus., another example)

Other examples of this print are held in the collections of the AGNSW, NGA, MGA and the MAMA.