Pat Brassington
(born 1942)
THE FROG, 1997
inkjet print
85.0 x 74.5 cm (image)
115.0 x 105.5 cm (frame)
edition: 3/5
Estimate:
$3,000 - $5,000
Sold:
$6,750 (inc. BP)
lot details
115.0 x 105.5 cm (frame)
Stills Gallery, Sydney (label attached verso)
Private collection
Deutscher~Menzies, Sydney, 16 June 2004, lot 195
Pat Corrigan Collection, Sydney
Long term loan, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Brisbane, 2004 – 05
Long term loan, University of Technology, Sydney, November 2016 – July 2021
Exhibited
Telling Tales, The Child in Contemporary Photography, Monash University Art Gallery, Melbourne, 1 August – 9 September 2000 (another example, illus. in exhibition catalogue, np)
Theatre of the World, Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania, 23 June 2012 – 8 April 2013; La Maison Rouge, Paris, 19 October 2013 – 12 January 2014 (another example)
The Shape of Things to Come, Buxton Contemporary, Melbourne, 9 March – 24 June 2018 (another example, illus. in exhibition catalogue, p. 92)
Literature
Marsh, A., ‘Pat Brassington: Uncanny Witness’, Art + Australia, Sydney, vol. 41, no. 4, Winter 2004, p. 588
Marsh, A., Pat Brassington: This is Not a Photograph, Quintus Publishing, Tasmania, 2006, p. 41 (illus. another example)
Related Works
Other examples of this photograph are held in the collection of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart and Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart


