Max Dupain
(1911 - 1992)
SILOS THROUGH WINDSCREEN, 1935 (printed 1970s)
silver gelatin photograph
23.0 x 25.5 cm (sight)
45.5 x 46.5 cm (frame)
signed in image lower right: - Max Dupain –
Estimate:
$1,500 - $2,000
Sold:
$7,364 (inc. BP)
© Max Dupain/Copyright Agency 2020
lot details
45.5 x 46.5 cm (frame)
Estate of the artist, Sydney
Private collection, Sydney
Menzies, Melbourne, 24 July 2014, lot 8
Pat Corrigan Collection, Sydney
Exhibited
Max Dupain Retrospective 1930-1980, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 August – 28 September 1980 (another example)
My city of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2 September – 22 October 2000 (another example)
Federation: Australian Art and Society 1901 – 2001, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 8 December 2000 – 11 February 2001, and touring (another example)
Soft Shadows and Sharp Lines: Australian photography from Cazneaux to Dupain, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 30 September – 17 November 2002 (another example)
Inside Sydney: Photographs by Max & Rex Dupain, Museum of Sydney, Sydney, 28 August – 5 December 2004 (another example)
Sydney Moderns, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 6 July – 7 October 2013 (another example, illus, in exhibition catalogue, p. 185)
Literature
Williams, J., The Quarantined Culture: Australian Reactions to Modernism, 1913-1939, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995, pl.1, p. 14 (illus., another example, and cover)
Newton, G., Max Dupain, The David Ell Press, Sydney, 1980, cat. 9, p. 45 (illus., another example)
King, R., Max Dupain, Printroom Press, Sydney, 1991, p. 30 (illus., another example)
Federation: Australian Art and Society 1901 – 2001, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2000, p. 118 (illus., another example)
Related Works
Other examples of this photograph are held in the collections of the AGNSW, NGV and the NGA.

