David Moore
(1927 - 2003)
SYDNEY HARBOUR FROM 16,000 FEET, 1966
silver gelatin photograph
44.5 x 31.0 cm (sight)
71.0 x 54.0 cm (frame)
signed, dated and inscribed with title on mount below image: Sydney Harbour from 16,000 feet – 1966 David Moore.
Estimate:
$3,000 - $5,000
Sold:
$4,891 (inc. BP)
© Lisa, Michael, Matthew and Joshua Moore
lot details
71.0 x 54.0 cm (frame)
Pat Corrigan Collection, Sydney
Exhibited
Harbour hymns, city songs: visions of Sydney from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 January – 11 March 1990 (another example)
Souvenirs of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 14 March – 10 May 1992 (another example)
Big Blue – the painted harbour, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 21 June – 29 March 1998 (another example)
My city of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2 September – 22 October 2000 (another example)
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. 66 (another example)
Harbourlife: Sydney Harbour from the 1940s to recent times, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Sydney, 30 November 2007 – 13 January 2008 and touring (another example, illus. in exhibition catalogue, pp. 57, 34)
David Moore Photographic Retrospective, Customs House, Sydney, 1 November 2013 – 26 January 2014 (another example)
Literature
Ennis, H., Masterpieces of Australian Photography, Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney, 1989, cat. 311, pp. 174 – 175 (illus., another example)
Related Works
Other examples of this photograph are held in the collections of the AGNSW, NGV, NGA and the NAMM.

