Axel Poignant (1906 - 1986)

SWAGMAN ON THE ROAD TO WILCANNIA, c.1954 (printed c.1978)

silver gelatin photograph

40.5 x 30.5 cm (sight)
71.0 x 59.0 cm (frame)

signed, dated and inscribed verso: THE SWAGMAN, ON THE ROAD TO WILCANNIA PHOTOGRAPHED BY AXEL POIGNANT c. 1954, PRINTED BY AXEL POIGNANT c. 1978, AUTHENTICATED BY ROSLYN POIGNANT 1988

Pat Corrigan Collection, Sydney

Axel Poignant: photographs 1922-1980, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 17 July – 29 August 1982, cat. 74 (another example)
Seeing is believing – the art in photography, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 December 1985 – 19 January 1986, cat. 35 (another example)
Federation: Australian Art and Society 1901-2001, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 8 December 2000 – 11 February 2001, and touring (another example)
Australian Postwar Photodocumentary, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 June – 8 August 2004 (another example)
Candid camera: Australian photography 1950s-1970s, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 28 May – 1 August 2010 (another example)

Newton, G., Silver and Grey – Fifty Years of Australian Photography 1900-1950, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1980, pl. 96 (illus., another example)
Ennis, H., Masterpieces of Australian Photography, Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney, 1989, cat. 325, pp. 182 – 183 (illus., another example)
Federation: Australian Art and Society 1901 – 2001, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2000, p. 62 (illus., another example)
Robinson, J., Candid Camera: Australian Photography 1950s – 1970s, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2010 (illus. cover, another example)

Other examples of this photograph are held in the collections of the AGNSW, NGA, NLA and the QAGoMA.