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Lot #22 - Olive Cotton

  • Auction House:
    Deutscher and Hackett
  • Sale Name:
    The Pat Corrigan Collection of Australian Black and White Photography - Timed Online Auction
  • Sale Date:
    02 Jun 2020 ~ 7pm (AEST)
  • Lot #:
    22
  • Lot Description:
    Olive Cotton
    (1911 – 2003)
    Drainpipes, 1937
    printed 1991; silver gelatin photograph; edition: 3/25
    31.5 x 29.0 cm (sight); 60.5 x 56.5 cm (frame)
    signed, dated and inscribed with title and numbered below image: Drain Pipes 1937 / 1991 3/25 Olive Cotton; bears inscription on label verso: 229
    Other examples of this photograph are held in the collection of the NGA, SLSA, and the NLA.
  • Provenance:
    Pat Corrigan Collection, Sydney
  • References:
    ‘Out of the shadows - the photography of Olive Cotton’, "Sydney Morning Herald", Sydney, 17 June 2016 (illus., another example)
  • Notes:
    EXHIBITED: "Olive Cotton (1911-2003"), Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney, 7 – 31 October 2013 (another example); "The Enduring Glance: 20th Century Australian Photography from the Corrigan Collection", Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, 22 June – 28 July 2002; "SOUL OF A CITY: Modernism and Sydney Photography 1930 to 1950," Delmar Gallery, Sydney, 17 May – 15 June 2014; "Max and Olive: the photographic life of Olive Cotton and Max Dupain", National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, and touring 2016 – 2017 (another example)
  • Estimate:
    A$2,000 - 3,000
  • Realised Price:
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  • Category:
    Art

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