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Pat Corrigan’s photo downsizing operation takes contemporary focus

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The amiable philanthropist and former freight boss, Pat Corrigan, is selling another round of works from his extensive photography collection as he continues to downsize on his approach to 90 years of age. This time, there’s the chance to pick up some classics of Australian contemporary photography from the early 1980s onwards, with works by artists including Bill Henson, Patricia Piccinini, Rosemary Laing, Polixeni Papapetrou, Anne Zahalka, Julie Rrap, Pat Brassington, Petrina Hicks, Shaun Gladwell and Callum Morton.

Patricia Piccinini, Romance, 1996-2000, from Your Time Starts Now series, estimate $8000 to $12,000, from the Corrigan Collection of Contemporary Photography, being sold by Deutscher and Hackett in a timed online sale launching July 1  

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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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