Collection
Axel Poignant
(England, Australia, England 12 Dec 1906–05 Feb 1986)
- Title
- Sam Sue, well known pearl buyer, Broome, Western Australia
- Year
- 1947
printed 1981 - Media category
- Photograph
- Materials used
- gelatin silver photograph
- Dimensions
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28.8 x 40.6cm image; 37.2 x 47.7cm sheet
- Signature & date
- Signed and dated l.r. sheet, pencil "Axel Poignant -1981". Dated l.l. sheet, pencil "...1947".
- Credit
- Purchased 1978
- Accession number
- 176.1978
- Location
- Not on display
- Bibliography (5)
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Natasha Bullock, Australian postwar photodocumentary 2004, Domain, 2004. no catalogue numbers
Josef Lebovic Gallery and Helen Ennis, Masterpieces of Australian Photography 1989, Twentieth Century Photography, Sydney, 1989, 184, 185 (illus). cat.no. 329
Gael Newton, Edmund Capon and Hal Missingham, Axel Poignant Retrospective 1982, Domain, 1982, (illus.). cat.no. 46
Gael Newton, Silver and Grey - Fifty Years of Australian Photography 1900-1950, 1980. plate no. 99
Gael Newtown, Three years on: a selection of acquisitions 1978-1981 1981, 'Photography - Australian, European and American', pg. 67-84, Sydney, 1981, 80. cat.no. 33
- Exhibition history (4)
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Three years on: Acquisitions 1978-81, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 Oct 1981–01 Dec 1981
Axel Poignant: photographs 1922-1980:
- Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 17 Jul 1982–29 Aug 1982
- Art Gallery of Western Australia, Australia 07 Sep 1982–08 Oct 1982
- Flinders University City Gallery, Adelaide 11 Nov 1982–01 Dec 1982
- National Library of Australia, Canberra 04 Mar 1983–08 Apr 1983
- Brisbane Civic Museum and Art Gallery, Brisbane 04 May 1983–04 Jun 1983
- Fine Arts Gallery University of Tasmania 08 Jul 1983–07 Aug 1983
- National Gallery of Victoria [St Kilda Road], Melbourne 25 Oct 1983–27 Nov 1983
- New South Wales House, London 05 Jun 1984–03 Aug 1984
- Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, Birmingham 11 Aug 1984–01 Sep 1984
- Manchester Museum 01 Oct 1985–31 Dec 1985
- Mansfield Museum 09 Jan 1986–04 Feb 1986
Four Photographers, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 02 Jun 1990–19 Aug 1990
Australian postwar photodocumentary, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 Jun 2004–08 Aug 2004
