David Moore

(1927 - 2003)

FUNNEL OF ORION, 1947

silver gelatin photograph

35.0 x 32.5 cm (sight)
58.0 x 53.0 cm (frame)

signed on mount below image: David Moore

Estimate:
$1,000 - $1,500

Sold:
$1,166 (inc. BP)

Lot 29

David Moore

FUNNEL OF ORION

, 1947

lot details

David Moore (1927 - 2003)
FUNNEL OF ORION, 1947
silver gelatin photograph
35.0 x 32.5 cm (sight)
58.0 x 53.0 cm (frame)
signed on mount below image: David Moore
Provenance

Pat Corrigan Collection, Sydney

Exhibited

David Moore: 100 Photographs, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 November 2005 – 5 March 2006, cat. 4 (another example)
SOUL OF A CITY: Modernism and Sydney Photography 1930 to 1950, Delmar Gallery, Sydney, 17 May – 15 June 2014

Literature

Contemporary Photography, March-April 1948, p.25 (illus., another example, as ‘Composition in Curves’)
Newton, G., Silver and Grey: Fifty Years of Australian Photography 1900 -1950, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1980, pl. 66 (illus., another example, as ‘Ship Design, c.1948’)