Live Auction 5809Travel, Science & Natural History
Christie’s roundel
Lot 197

Frank Hurley (1885-1962)

'A Radiant Turret Lit by the Midsummer Midnight Sun' (Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914)

Closed15 October 2009

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GBP 10,000

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Frank Hurley (1885-1962)
'A Radiant Turret Lit by the Midsummer Midnight Sun' (Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914)
with inscription as titled and with number '36' on the Fine Art Society label on the reverse
blue-toned carbon print
unframed
20 x 25in. (50.6 x 64cm.)

Ken Crane, James Place Cameras, Adelaide.

Specialist note

Hurley accompanied Sir Douglas Mawson as official photographer on his Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911-14. He was aboard the Aurora on her way to rescue some of Mawson's men from Knox Land in the Antarctic, when they came upon 'Thousands of mighty bergs ... grounded on a vast shoal and our way lay through their midst. No grander sight have I ever witnessed among the wonders of Antarctica.' (F. Hurley, Argonauts of the South, [New York], 1925, p.103)