David Moore
(1927 - 2003)
ALEXANDRIA, SYDNEY, c.1949
silver gelatin photograph
31.5 x 42.0 cm (sight)
54.0 x 63.0 cm (frame)
signed on mount below image: David Moore
Estimate:
$800 - $1,200
Sold:
$2,332 (inc. BP)
© Lisa, Michael, Matthew and Joshua Moore
lot details
54.0 x 63.0 cm (frame)
Pat Corrigan Collection, Sydney, acquired directly from the artist
Exhibited
Sydney at Mid Century, organised by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, touring to Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, 1– 25 July 1985, Developed Image Gallery, Adelaide, 1 August – September 1985, New South Wales House, London, 26 January – 30 June 1988 (another example)
Critic’s Choice, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 22 April – 10 July 1994 (another example, illus. in exhibition catalogue, p. 2)
The Enduring Glance: 20th Century Australian Photography from the Corrigan Collection, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, 22 June – 28 July 2002
David Moore: 100 Photographs, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 November 2005 – 5 March 2006, cat. 12 (another example)
SOUL OF A CITY: Modernism and Sydney Photography 1930 to 1950, Delmar Gallery, Sydney, 17 May – 15 June 2014
Collective Vision 130 Years, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, 4 March – 28 May 2017 (another example, illus. in exhibition catalogue, p.84)
Literature
Other examples of this photograph are held in the collection of the AGNSW and the Bendigo AG.

