Landscape Nude, c1935/printed later

Signed in pencil on image lower right.

Provenance
Dupain Estate
Rex Dupain, the artist’s son Private collection, Sydney

Image size: 29.2 × 21 cm

Framed size: 51 x 41 cm

This photograph is a fine example of Dupain’s early modernist nudes from the 1930s, a period when he emerged as Australia’s leading modernist photographer. Many of his images from this period explored the human form through the depiction of nude or partially clad figures in the natural environment, serving as anchors for semi-abstract or surrealist compositions. The title Landscape Nude suggests the figure is integrated within a natural setting, a theme that preoccupied Dupain throughout the 1930s as he moved away from the soft-focus Pictorialism of his predecessors toward bold compositions and stark tonal contrasts.