David Moore Australia, 1927-2003
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About David Moore
Born in 1927, David Moore is best known as a photographer and painter. He studied and worked with Max Dupain in the 1940s and and then travelled to to London in 1945 where he worked as a freelance press photographer. He returned to Sydney in 1957 and set up his own photography studio and in 1973 helped establish the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney. He held more than 50 solo exhibitions between 1953 and 2003 in Sydney, Melbourne, China, Korea and Japan. Retrospectives of his work were shown by Art Gallery of New south Wales, in 1988, and after his death in 2003 by the National Gallery of Australia in 2003 and the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 2005.
The total number of works by David Moore offered for sale by auction since 1988 is 221, of which 161 (73%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $42,955 for Migrants Arriving in Sydney sold by Menzies in November 2020. This year 9 works have been offered for sale. Works by David Moore are held by the National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of NSW and a further six major public national galleries (see list below).
David Moore is listed in the following standard biographical references:
- McCulloch, Alan McCulloch, Susan McCulloch, Emily McCulloch-Childs. The New McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art. 4th Edition, Aus Art Melbourne & The Miegunyah Press, 2006. Page 696
- Germaine, Max. Artists and Galleries of Australia, Volumes 1 & 2, Third Edition. Craftsman Press, Sydney, 1990. Page 482
- Australian Prints + Printmaking, a database listing printmaking artists from Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific region based on the print collection of the National Gallery of Australia.
Artists' Resale Royalty
Could the second and subsequent works by this artist sold after June 9, 2010 for over $1,000 be liable for the Artists' Resale Royalty? More info…
Yes, eligible, subject to the artist satisfying the residency test. The artist is alive or has been deceased for less than 70 years. Contact the Copyright Agency for information on the residency test.
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