David Moore
(1927 - 2003)
MARTIN PLACE, SYDNEY, 1949
silver gelatin photograph
39.5 x 27.0 cm (sight)
64.0 x 48.5 cm (frame)
signed, dated and inscribed with title on mount below image: Martin Place, Sydney – 1949 David Moore
Estimate:
$1,500 - $1,800
Sold:
$1,105 (inc. BP)
© Lisa, Michael, Matthew and Joshua Moore
lot details
64.0 x 48.5 cm (frame)
Pat Corrigan Collection, Sydney, acquired directly from 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)
My city of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2 September – 22 October 2000 (another example)
The Enduring Glance: 20th Century Australian Photography from the Corrigan Collection, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, 22 June – 28 July 2002
David Moore 1927-2003 – Photographs from the Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 February – 16 March 2003 (another example)
David Moore: 100 Photographs, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 November 2005 – 5 March 2006, cat. 14 (another example)
SOUL OF A CITY: Modernism and Sydney Photography 1930 to 1950, Delmar Gallery, Sydney, 17 May – 15 June 2014
Related Works
Other examples of this photograph are held in the collections of the AGNSW, NLA and the NGV.

