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Lucio dishes up 40 years of art morsels

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Lucio Galletto has just polished off a lunch of spaghetti and clams when Saleroom calls about Sunday’s auction of the sprawling art collection that hung in his legendary Sydney restaurant.

“Now that I’m unemployed I have to wash up as well,” Galletto says from his holiday home in Mollymook, on the south coast of New South Wales.

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Gabriella Coslovich is an arts journalist with more than 20 years’ experience, including 15 at The Age, where she was a senior arts writer. Her book, Whiteley on Trial, on Australia’s most audacious of alleged art fraud, won a Walkley in 2018.

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