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Lot 40

MAX DUPAIN (1911-1992)
Form at Bondi 1939
silver gelatin print
printed c.1980s
artist's name, title and date on Rex Dupain authenticity stamp verso (concealed)
38 x 38cm (image); 50.5 x 40.5cm (sheet); 65 x 53cm (frame)

Estimate $6,000 - $8,000

Sold for $5,000


The Estate of Max Dupain, Sydney
Private collection, Sydney


Max Dupain Retrospective 1930-1980, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 August – 28 September 1980 (another example)
On the Beach, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 8 - 28 December 1982 (another example)
Four Photographers, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2 June – 19 August 1990 (another example)
Fine and Mostly Sunny: Photographs from the Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 28 September – 1 December 1991 (another example)
Max Dupain – An Appreciation, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 11 - 30 August 1992 (another example)
On the Beach: With Whiteley and Fellow Australian Artists, The Brett Whiteley Studio, Sydney, 1 March – 29 June 2003 (another example)
Bondi: A Biography, Museum of Sydney, Sydney, 17 December 2005 – 19 March 2006 (another example)


Newton, G., Max Dupain Retrospective 1930-1980, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1980, cat. no. 27 (illus., another example)
Slutzkin, L., On the Beach, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1982, cat. no. 38 (illus., another example)
Sayers, A., 'Order and Transcendence: Art between the Wars 1919-39', in Australian Art, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001, p. 137, pl. 78 (another example)
White, J., and Moorhouse, F., Dupain's Australia, Chapter & Verse, Sydney, 2003, p. 10 (illus., another example)
Peel, R., Australian Postwar Photodocumentary in Photography: Art Gallery of New South Wales Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2007, p. 195 (another example)


Other examples of this print are held in the collections of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane; National Library of Australia, Canberra; State Library of New South Wales, Sydney; and National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

© Max Dupain/Copyright Agency, 2025

Prints and Multiples

AUCTION
Sale: IT098
6:00pm - 3 December 2025
Timed Online Auction (Melbourne)

VIEWING
Fri 28 - Sun 30 Nov, 10am - 4pm
2 Oxley Rd, Hawthorn VIC

CONTACT
Hannah Ryan
hannah.ryan@leonardjoel.com.au


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