IDNO

DG.167295.RPT

Description

A photograph of a mounted print titled 'Firebird' of a portrait of a woman with red hair appearing as though disembodied against a dark background. The print is lying beside a grey scale and a colour scale and the corners are being held down by transparent weights. [KK 08/08/2023]

Place

Oceania Australasia; Australia; ?New South Wales; ?Sydney

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Poignant, Axel

Collector / Expedition

Date

1936 - 1938

Collection Name

Poignant Collection

Source

Poignant, Roslyn

Format

Digital File

Primary Documentation

Other Information

DG.167113.RPT - DG.167351.RPT were located on a blue 'Seagate backup plus' hard drive in a box now numbered C1035/.

DG.167295.RPT - DG.167351.RPT were located in a digital folder named "Scans to be filed."

Related image: A similar image is in the care of the Art Gallery of New South Wales with the number 241.2011 and the following information: "Title Firebird
1936-1938
Artist Axel Poignant.
Materials used gelatin silver photograph, hand coloured
Dimensions 32.5 x 21.8 cm image/sheet
Signature & date Signed l.r. backing and l.r. verso backing, brown crayon "Alex Poignant". Not dated.
Credit Purchased with funds provided by the Photography Collection Benefactors' Program 2011." [source: https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/241.2011/ KK 08/08/2023]