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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Timed Auction | Contemporary Indigenous Photography from The Corrigan Collection
• Sale Date:
  01 Dec 2020 ~ 7pm (AEDT)
• Lot #:
  26
• Lot Description:
  Darren Siwes
  (born 1968)
  They Were Playing Mirror, 2006
  from the series MUM I WANT TO BE BROWN; Cibachrome photograph
  120.0 x 100.0 cm (image); 127.0 x 107.0 cm (frame); edition: 3/8
  signed on label verso
  Another example of this photograph is held in the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
• Provenance:
  Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide (label attached verso); Corrigan Collection, Sydney, acquired from the above in June 2006; on long-term loan to the University of Technology, Sydney, September 2006 – September 2009; June 2013 – November 2020
• Exhibited:
  Mum I Want to be Brown, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, 31 May – 25 June 2006; Mum I Want to be Brown, Magnanmetz, New York in association with Greenaway Art Gallery, 3 January – 9 February 2008 (another example); Mum I Want to be Brown, Turner Galleries, Perth, 11 April – 10 May 2008 (another example)
• References:
  Riphagen, M., ‘Dialogue with Rembrandt’, Artlink, Adelaide, Issue 31, No. 2, June 2011, p.57 (illus. another example); Shuster, R., ‘Photographer Darren Siwes’s Little Brown Boogey Man’, The Village Voice, 8 January 2008 (illus. another example)
• Notes:
  © Darren Siwes/Copyright Agency, 2020
• Estimate:
  A$3,000 - 5,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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