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'''Axel Poignant''' (2 December 1906 – 5 February 1986) was an Australian photographer.
'''Axel Poignant''' (12 December 1906 – 5 February 1986) was an Australian photographer.


==Personal life==
==Personal life==
Born on 12 December 1906 at Leeds, England. Poignant was son to his Swedish father and English mother Roslyn Poignant,<ref>{{cite web|last1=Poignant|first1=Roslyn|title=Lost Conversations, Recovered Archives,|url=http://www.artsandmuseums.nt.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/114940/occpaper49_ej10.pdf|website=Arts and Museums|accessdate=23 April 2015}}</ref> as well as elder brother to Axel Jonas Alfred Poignant. Axel studied at Grosvenor House School in Harrogate Yorkshire and then moved to Sweden at the end of 1918 where he finished the rest of his education. Once poignant finished school he returned to England in 1925 before he moved to Sydney, Australia in July 1926 reason being the dreadnought scheme. He travelled from place to place looking for work throughout the Sydney and New South wales. Poignant was married to his wife Sandra St Lucien Eliot Chase on 21 April 1930 and then moved to Perth together,<ref>{{cite web|last1=Sassoon|first1=Joanna|title=Poignant, Harald Emil Axel, Australian Dictionary of Biography|url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/poignant-harald-emil-axel-15467|website=Australian Dictionary of Biography|accessdate=21 April 2015}}</ref> Where then he had specialised himself in portrait photography, personal events as well as aerial photography for Western Mining.<ref>{{cite web|title=Axel Poignant, National Portrait Gallery|url=http://www.portrait.gov.au/people/axel-poignant-1906|website=National Portrait Gallery|publisher=National Portrait Gallery|accessdate=9 April 2015}}</ref>
Poignant was born on 12 December 1906 in [[Leeds]], [[England]], to a Swedish father and an English mother.<ref name="Sassoon"/> He had a younger sister. He was educated at Grosvenor House School in [[Harrogate]], [[Yorkshire]], and then moved to [[Sweden]] at the end of 1918 where he finished the rest of his education.<ref name="Sassoon"/> He returned to England in 1925, then emigrated to [[Sydney]], [[New South Wales]], [[Australia]] in July 1926 under the [[Scheyville National Park#The Dreadnought Scheme|Dreadnought Scheme]].<ref name="Sassoon"/> He travelled from place to place looking for work throughout Sydney and New South Wales.<ref name="Sassoon"/>


Early 1936 Muriel Chase past away of an unexpected heart attack, Poignant's marriage became difficult and then separated but they weren't divorced until 1941. Sandra moved back to Sydney and The Manor and then New Zealand in 1941.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Poignant|first1=Roslyn|title=Picture Story, Axel Poignant, The Formative Years 1929-1942|url=http://crossart.com.au/home/images/stories/exhibitions/Poignant/rpoignant_ap_formativeyears_2011.pdf|website=Crossart|accessdate=25 April 2015}}</ref> Having gotten divorced in 1941 Poignant became a citizen of Australia at the distract registrar's office on 8 July 1942 in Perth, and was married to Ruth Marjorie Pettersen and enlisted for the Imperial Force for Australia the following year, he was discharged in 1945. Poignant passed on 5 February 1986 in his home at Lewisham, London, surviving so long due to his wife’s nurture, Poignant had no children.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Sassoon|first1=Joanna|title=Poignant, Harald Emil Axel (1906–1986)|url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/poignant-harald-emil-axel-15467|website=Australian Dictionary of Biography|accessdate=25 April 2015}}</ref>
Poignant married Sandra St Lucien Eliot Chase on 21 April 1930 and they moved to [[Perth]], Western Australia,<ref name="Sassoon">{{cite book|last1=Sassoon|first1=Joanna|title=Poignant, Harald Emil Axel, Australian Dictionary of Biography|chapter=Harald Emil Axel Poignant (1906–1986) |chapter-url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/poignant-harald-emil-axel-15467|publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |accessdate=21 April 2015}}</ref><ref name="Picture Story">{{cite web|last1=Poignant|first1=Roslyn|title=Picture Story, Axel Poignant, The Formative Years 1929-1942|url=http://crossart.com.au/home/images/stories/exhibitions/Poignant/rpoignant_ap_formativeyears_2011.pdf|website=Crossart|accessdate=25 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150326171041/http://crossart.com.au/home/images/stories/exhibitions/Poignant/rpoignant_ap_formativeyears_2011.pdf|archive-date=26 March 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> where he specialised in portrait photography, personal events as well as aerial photography for [[WMC Resources|Western Mining]].<ref name="Sassoon"/><ref>{{cite web|title=Axel Poignant, National Portrait Gallery|url=http://www.portrait.gov.au/people/axel-poignant-1906|website=National Portrait Gallery|accessdate=9 April 2015}}</ref> Poignant and Sandra divorced in 1941.<ref name="Sassoon"/> Poignant became a citizen of Australia on 8 July 1942 in Perth, and married Ruth Marjorie Pettersen the same month.<ref name="Sassoon"/> He enlisted in the [[Second Australian Imperial Force|Australian Imperial Force]] the following year; he was discharged in 1945.<ref name="Sassoon"/>


His second wife died in 1953, and on 24 October 1953 Poignant married [[Roslyn Poignant|Roslyn Betty Izatt]], a film technician, in Sydney.<ref name="Sassoon"/> He had known her since 1950 and they were both life and photographic partners.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/dec/16/roslyn-poignant-obituary|title=Roslyn Poignant obituary|last=Thomas|first=Martin|date=2019-12-16|work=The Guardian|access-date=2019-12-28|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> In 1956, they moved to England, where Poignant died on 5 February 1986 at his home in [[Lewisham]], London.<ref name="Sassoon"/> He had no children.<ref name="Sassoon"/>
==Photography==


==Photography==
After moving to Perth with his wife in 1930 Poignant gained an interest in photography as a personal career when he enforced in an Leica camera in 1933 and specialised himself in portrait photography through Muriel Chase (Mother-in-Law). Not long after Poignant and Stuart Gore decided to open a studio together in London where they worked on a large range of Aerial photographic survey of the Western Australian goldfields. Photographs of Karri logging at Pemberton in 1935, Kalgoorlie mines in 1936, the Aerial views of the Duke of Gloucester’s arrival in Perth in 1934 and the Anzac day dawn service in Perth 1939
All of these images were a fresh view to the public’s eye due to poignant’s style and technique while shooting for example his choice of angles. In 1935 Poignant broadened his choice of work from dancing and theatre as he had become in contact with Linley Wilson, a principle of a dance studio as well as a colleague and former student Alison Lee. Once his studio was finally set up poignant showcast his photographs and caught the attention of more clients as well as many of the former debutantes that were once at Linley Wilsons School of Dance<ref>{{cite web|last1=Poignant|first1=Roslyn|title=Picture Story, Axel Poignant, The Formative Years 1929-1942|url=http://crossart.com.au/home/images/stories/exhibitions/Poignant/rpoignant_ap_formativeyears_2011.pdf|website=Crossart|accessdate=25 April 2015}}</ref> then moved onto natural history as he became fascinated with the idea of photo-essay and documenting. He had exhibited in Perth 1941 with Hal Missingham. The following year poignant took a trip along canning stock where he took photographs to review ‘marking a change in the portrayal of aborigines’.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Sassoon|first1=Joanna|title=Poignant, Harald Emil Axel, Australian Dictionary of Biography|url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/poignant-harald-emil-axel-15467|website=Australian Dictionary of Biography|accessdate=21 April 2015}}</ref>
After moving to Perth with his first wife in 1930 Poignant gained an interest in photography as a personal career when he invested in a Leica camera in 1933 and specialised in portrait photography through Muriel Chase. Not long afterwards, Poignant and [[Stuart Gore]] decided to open a studio together in London where they worked on an aerial photographic survey of the Western Australian goldfields. Photographs of [[karri]] logging at [[Pemberton, Western Australia|Pemberton]] in 1935, [[Kalgoorlie]] mines in 1936, the aerial views of the Duke of Gloucester's arrival in Perth in 1934 and the [[Anzac Day]] dawn service in Perth 1939 - all of these images were a fresh view to the public's eye due to Poignant's style and technique, for example his choice of angles. In 1935 Poignant broadened his choice of work from dancing and theatre as he had come in contact with [[Linley Wilson]], a principal of a dance studio as well as a colleague and former student [[Alison Lee]]. Once his studio was finally set up, Poignant showcased his photographs and caught the attention of more clients as well as many of the former debutantes of the dance studio.<ref name="Picture Story"/> He then moved onto natural history as he became fascinated with the idea of photo-essay and documenting. He had exhibited in Perth in 1941 with [[Hal Missingham]]. The following year he took a trip along Canning stock route where he took photographs to review 'marking a change in the portrayal of aborigines'.<ref name="Sassoon"/>


[[File:Portrait of Alison Lee, Perth, Western Australia, ca. 1933 Axel Poignant.jpg|thumb|Portrait of Alison Lee, Perth, Western Australia, ca. 1933 Axel Poignant.]]
[[File:Portrait of Alison Lee, Perth, Western Australia, ca. 1933 Axel Poignant.jpg|thumb|Portrait of Alison Lee, Perth, Western Australia, ca. 1933 Axel Poignant.]]


Poignant's photographs relate to the traditions of Australian and Indigenous Identity. A lot of his work captures a lot of the Outback as well as flora and fauna. After sometime of being in Perth he came to enjoy photo-essay and became fascinated with the idea of 'adding real humanity to the medium'. Throughout his travels he grew strong relationships with Aborigines which we can see in his work, by his beautiful and passionate portraits of these people and their lifestyles. Poignant used angles as a way of creating his strong images such from a low point of view and close up to 'appeal more natural' then sharp and defined like the earlier ethnographic photography.<ref>{{cite web|title=Collection, Axel Poignant, Leading the Dance|url=http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/160.1983/|website=Art Gallery NSW|accessdate=25 April 2015}}</ref>
Poignant's photographs relate to the traditions of Australian and indigenous identity. A lot of his work captures the flora and fauna of [[The Outback]]. He became fascinated with the idea of 'adding real humanity to the medium'. Throughout his travels he fostered strong relationships with Aborigines, continuing to capture portraits of these people and their lifestyles. Poignant used angles as a way of creating his images, for example, shooting from a low point of view and close up to 'appear more natural' than sharp and defined like the earlier ethnographic photography.<ref>{{cite web|title=Collection, Axel Poignant, Leading the Dance|url=http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/160.1983/|website=Art Gallery NSW|accessdate=25 April 2015}}</ref>


==Exhibitions==
==Books==
''Piccaninny Walkabout'', published in 1957 won the 1958 [[Children's Book Council of Australia]] [[Children's Book of the Year Award: Picture Book|Picture Book Children's Book of the Year Award]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://archive.cbca.org.au/winners4659.htm|title=Award Winners 1946 to 1959|website=www.cbca.org.au|publisher=Children's Book Council of Australia|accessdate=28 September 2016}}</ref> It is the story of two [[Aboriginal Australians|Australian Aboriginal]] children, Nullagundi and Rikili, who go on a [[walkabout]].


*''Kaleku'' 1972 with [[Roslyn Poignant]]<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7diXAAAACAAJ&q=roslyn-poignant|title=Kaleku|last1=Poignant|first1=Axel|last2=Poignant|first2=Roslyn|date=1972|publisher=Angus and Robertson|isbn=978-0-207-95453-5|language=en}}</ref>
In 1986 Poignant’s work was shown in Aspects of Post Modernism 1929-1942 which was held at University of Western Australia in 1986.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Sassoon|first1=Joanna|title=Poignant, Harald Emil Axel (1906–1986)|url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/poignant-harald-emil-axel-15467|website=Australian Dictionary of Biography|accessdate=25 April 2015}}</ref>


*''Children of Oropiro'' 1976 with Roslyn Poignant<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AGPmAAAACAAJ&q=roslyn-poignant|title=Children of Oropiro|last1=Poignant|first1=Axel|last2=Poignant|first2=Roslyn|date=1976|publisher=Angus & Robertson|isbn=978-0-207-95582-2|language=en}}</ref>
September 1941 Poignant and Hal Missingham held an exhibition of fifty photographs each. They gave conversational lectures at the Perth Newspaper House.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Poignant|first1=Roslyn|title=Picture Story, Axel Poignant, The Formative Years 1929-1942|url=http://crossart.com.au/home/images/stories/exhibitions/Poignant/rpoignant_ap_formativeyears_2011.pdf|website=Crossart|accessdate=25 April 2015}}</ref>

''Encounter at Nagalarramba'' published in 1996 and a joint work with [[Roslyn Poignant]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_riBjoqcCowC&q=roslyn-poignant|title=Encounter at Nagalarramba|last1=Poignant|first1=Roslyn|last2=Poignant|first2=Axel|date=1996|publisher=National Library of Australia|isbn=978-0-642-10665-0|language=en}}</ref>

==Exhibitions==
In 1986 Poignant's work was shown in ''Aspects of Post Modernism 1929-1942'', which was held at the [[University of Western Australia]] in 1986.<ref name="Sassoon"/>

In September 1941 Poignant and Hal Missingham held an exhibition of fifty photographs each. They gave conversational lectures at the Perth Newspaper House.<ref name="Picture Story"/>


Poignant's Retrospective series 1982 were exhibited in different states displaying photographs he had taken throughout the years 1922 to 1980.
Poignant's Retrospective series 1982 were exhibited in different states displaying photographs he had taken throughout the years 1922 to 1980.
The NSW Art Gallery had organised his exhibitions.
The [[Art Gallery of New South Wales]] organised his exhibitions.


1982 Exhibition held at NSW Art Gallery: This exhibition was organised by the ANGSW and was taken to different states. 107 photographs were displayed from the years 1922 to 1980.
1982 exhibition was held at NSW Art Gallery: This exhibition was taken to different states. 107 photographs were displayed from the years 1922 to 1980.


1982 Exhibition held at Art Gallery of Western Australia: AGNSW touring exhibition. Poignant's series of photographs displayed Kalgoorlie, the Canning Stock Route and Central Australia.
1982 Exhibition held at Art Gallery of Western Australia: AGNSW touring exhibition. Poignant's series of photographs displayed Kalgoorlie, the Canning Stock Route and Central Australia.
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1983 Exhibition held at Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery: This exhibition for Poignant was organised by the NSW Art Gallery (AGNSW). "A major survey of this well known Australian photographer whose reputation was established as a chronicler of Australian life and especially of the Australian Aborigine."<ref>{{cite web|title=Axel Poignant b. 1906|url=http://www.daao.org.au/bio/axel-poignant-1/events/|website=Design&Art Australia Online|accessdate=25 April 2015}}</ref>
1983 Exhibition held at Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery: This exhibition for Poignant was organised by the NSW Art Gallery (AGNSW). "A major survey of this well known Australian photographer whose reputation was established as a chronicler of Australian life and especially of the Australian Aborigine."<ref>{{cite web|title=Axel Poignant b. 1906|url=http://www.daao.org.au/bio/axel-poignant-1/events/|website=Design&Art Australia Online|accessdate=25 April 2015}}</ref>


After Poignant's passing the National Library of Victoria, Canberra, and the art gallery of Western Australia and New South Wales hold collections of his work.
After Poignant's death, the [[National Library of Australia]], Canberra,<ref>{{cite web|last1=Poignant|first1=Roslyn|title=Lost Conversations, Recovered Archives|url=http://www.artsandmuseums.nt.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/114940/occpaper49_ej10.pdf|website=Arts and Museums|accessdate=23 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150323234304/http://www.artsandmuseums.nt.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/114940/occpaper49_ej10.pdf|archive-date=23 March 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> and the art galleries of Western Australia and New South Wales held collections of his work.

In 2007 the Art Gallery of New South Wales held an exhibition of his work on Indigenous Connections.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Sassoon|first1=Joanna|title=Poignant, Harald Emil Axel (1906–1986)|url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/poignant-harald-emil-axel-15467|website=Australian Dictionary of Biography|accessdate=25 April 2015}}</ref> The Australian [[National Portrait Gallery (Australia)|National Portrait Gallery]] also has a number of his works in its collection.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.portrait.gov.au/people/axel-poignant-1906 |title=Axel Poignant 1906 – 1986|website=www.portrait.gov.au |publisher=National Portrait Gallery|accessdate=28 September 2016}}</ref>
In 2007 the Art Gallery of New South Wales held an exhibition of his work on Indigenous Connections.<ref name="Sassoon"/> The Australian [[National Portrait Gallery (Australia)|National Portrait Gallery]] also has a number of his works in its collection.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.portrait.gov.au/people/axel-poignant-1906 |title=Axel Poignant 1906 – 1986|website=www.portrait.gov.au |publisher=National Portrait Gallery|accessdate=28 September 2016}}</ref>


==References==
==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/161.1983/ ''The swimmers, Milingimbi, Arnhem Land'' held by Art Gallery of New South Wales]

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Axel Poignant
Self-portrait with first movie camera, Perth, 1933-34
Born(1906-12-12)12 December 1906
Died(1986-02-05)5 February 1986
NationalityAnglo-Swedish
Known forPhotography
Spouse(s)Sandra St Lucien Eliot Chase, 1930–1941 (div.)
Ruth Marjorie Pettersen, 1942–1953 (her death)
Roslyn Betty Izatt, 1953–1986 (his death)

Axel Poignant (12 December 1906 – 5 February 1986) was an Australian photographer.

Personal life

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Poignant was born on 12 December 1906 in Leeds, England, to a Swedish father and an English mother.[1] He had a younger sister. He was educated at Grosvenor House School in Harrogate, Yorkshire, and then moved to Sweden at the end of 1918 where he finished the rest of his education.[1] He returned to England in 1925, then emigrated to Sydney, New South Wales, Australia in July 1926 under the Dreadnought Scheme.[1] He travelled from place to place looking for work throughout Sydney and New South Wales.[1]

Poignant married Sandra St Lucien Eliot Chase on 21 April 1930 and they moved to Perth, Western Australia,[1][2] where he specialised in portrait photography, personal events as well as aerial photography for Western Mining.[1][3] Poignant and Sandra divorced in 1941.[1] Poignant became a citizen of Australia on 8 July 1942 in Perth, and married Ruth Marjorie Pettersen the same month.[1] He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force the following year; he was discharged in 1945.[1]

His second wife died in 1953, and on 24 October 1953 Poignant married Roslyn Betty Izatt, a film technician, in Sydney.[1] He had known her since 1950 and they were both life and photographic partners.[4] In 1956, they moved to England, where Poignant died on 5 February 1986 at his home in Lewisham, London.[1] He had no children.[1]

Photography

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After moving to Perth with his first wife in 1930 Poignant gained an interest in photography as a personal career when he invested in a Leica camera in 1933 and specialised in portrait photography through Muriel Chase. Not long afterwards, Poignant and Stuart Gore decided to open a studio together in London where they worked on an aerial photographic survey of the Western Australian goldfields. Photographs of karri logging at Pemberton in 1935, Kalgoorlie mines in 1936, the aerial views of the Duke of Gloucester's arrival in Perth in 1934 and the Anzac Day dawn service in Perth 1939 - all of these images were a fresh view to the public's eye due to Poignant's style and technique, for example his choice of angles. In 1935 Poignant broadened his choice of work from dancing and theatre as he had come in contact with Linley Wilson, a principal of a dance studio as well as a colleague and former student Alison Lee. Once his studio was finally set up, Poignant showcased his photographs and caught the attention of more clients as well as many of the former debutantes of the dance studio.[2] He then moved onto natural history as he became fascinated with the idea of photo-essay and documenting. He had exhibited in Perth in 1941 with Hal Missingham. The following year he took a trip along Canning stock route where he took photographs to review 'marking a change in the portrayal of aborigines'.[1]

Portrait of Alison Lee, Perth, Western Australia, ca. 1933 Axel Poignant.

Poignant's photographs relate to the traditions of Australian and indigenous identity. A lot of his work captures the flora and fauna of The Outback. He became fascinated with the idea of 'adding real humanity to the medium'. Throughout his travels he fostered strong relationships with Aborigines, continuing to capture portraits of these people and their lifestyles. Poignant used angles as a way of creating his images, for example, shooting from a low point of view and close up to 'appear more natural' than sharp and defined like the earlier ethnographic photography.[5]

Books

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Piccaninny Walkabout, published in 1957 won the 1958 Children's Book Council of Australia Picture Book Children's Book of the Year Award.[6] It is the story of two Australian Aboriginal children, Nullagundi and Rikili, who go on a walkabout.

  • Children of Oropiro 1976 with Roslyn Poignant[8]

Encounter at Nagalarramba published in 1996 and a joint work with Roslyn Poignant.[9]

Exhibitions

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In 1986 Poignant's work was shown in Aspects of Post Modernism 1929-1942, which was held at the University of Western Australia in 1986.[1]

In September 1941 Poignant and Hal Missingham held an exhibition of fifty photographs each. They gave conversational lectures at the Perth Newspaper House.[2]

Poignant's Retrospective series 1982 were exhibited in different states displaying photographs he had taken throughout the years 1922 to 1980. The Art Gallery of New South Wales organised his exhibitions.

1982 exhibition was held at NSW Art Gallery: This exhibition was taken to different states. 107 photographs were displayed from the years 1922 to 1980.

1982 Exhibition held at Art Gallery of Western Australia: AGNSW touring exhibition. Poignant's series of photographs displayed Kalgoorlie, the Canning Stock Route and Central Australia.

Leading the Dance 1952, Printed 1983. Retrospective Exhibition 1982

1983 Exhibition held at National Gallery of Victoria: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Arts, UTAS. Photographs, 1922-1980. Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1982.

1983 Exhibition held at Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery: This exhibition for Poignant was organised by the NSW Art Gallery (AGNSW). "A major survey of this well known Australian photographer whose reputation was established as a chronicler of Australian life and especially of the Australian Aborigine."[10]

After Poignant's death, the National Library of Australia, Canberra,[11] and the art galleries of Western Australia and New South Wales held collections of his work.

In 2007 the Art Gallery of New South Wales held an exhibition of his work on Indigenous Connections.[1] The Australian National Portrait Gallery also has a number of his works in its collection.[12]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Sassoon, Joanna. "Harald Emil Axel Poignant (1906–1986)". Poignant, Harald Emil Axel, Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 21 April 2015.
  2. ^ a b c Poignant, Roslyn. "Picture Story, Axel Poignant, The Formative Years 1929-1942" (PDF). Crossart. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 March 2015. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
  3. ^ "Axel Poignant, National Portrait Gallery". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
  4. ^ Thomas, Martin (16 December 2019). "Roslyn Poignant obituary". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  5. ^ "Collection, Axel Poignant, Leading the Dance". Art Gallery NSW. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
  6. ^ "Award Winners 1946 to 1959". www.cbca.org.au. Children's Book Council of Australia. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
  7. ^ Poignant, Axel; Poignant, Roslyn (1972). Kaleku. Angus and Robertson. ISBN 978-0-207-95453-5.
  8. ^ Poignant, Axel; Poignant, Roslyn (1976). Children of Oropiro. Angus & Robertson. ISBN 978-0-207-95582-2.
  9. ^ Poignant, Roslyn; Poignant, Axel (1996). Encounter at Nagalarramba. National Library of Australia. ISBN 978-0-642-10665-0.
  10. ^ "Axel Poignant b. 1906". Design&Art Australia Online. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
  11. ^ Poignant, Roslyn. "Lost Conversations, Recovered Archives" (PDF). Arts and Museums. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 March 2015. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
  12. ^ "Axel Poignant 1906 – 1986". www.portrait.gov.au. National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
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