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Olive Cotton (1911 - 2003) Max after surfing, 1939, printed 1995 silver gelatin photograph 26.0 x 20.0 cm (image) 32.0 x 26.0 cm (sheet) 46.0 x 38.5 cm (frame) edition: 14/97 signed below image: Olive Cotton inscribed with title and numbered verso: Max After Surfing / 14/97 PROVENANCE Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne Private collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above in 1995 EXHIBITED Olive Cotton: Photographs 1920s – 1990s, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 19 October – 11 November 1995, cat. 18 The Unflinching Gaze: photo media and the male figure, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales, 13 October – 3 December 2017 (another example) Man Ray and Max Dupain, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 6 August – 9 November 2025, cat. 209 (another example) Women Photographers 1900 – 1975: A Legacy of Light, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 28 November 2025 – 3 May 2026 (another example) LITERATURE Harding, L., Man Ray and Max Dupain, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2025, cat. 209, pp. 196 (illus., another example), 234 (illus., another example) RELATED WORK Other examples of this photograph are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, and the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane Max after surfing, 1937, silver gelatin print, 38.0 x 30.0 cm, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra This work is located in our Melbourne Gallery