[Rooftops near Sydney Harbour], 1926 / John D. Moore

V/350

fonds

1926

Graphic Materials, Watercolours

9649516

1 watercolour - visible image, 29 x 45 cm, in mat 34 x 50 cm - pencil on paper

Provenance: Private collection, Melbourne. Sold at Leonard Joel Weekly Sale: LJW8158: Interiors & Jewellery - Art Salon: Lot 3067 in Melbourne on Thursday 19 January 2017. Attributed to the collection of Mrs John Spencer in Art in Australia, October 16, 1933, p. 29. Lent to New Gallery in Table Talk, 1 November 1926, p. 51, possibly for John D Moore exhibition of oil, watercolour and pencil drawings at the New Gallery, 107 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, from 10-21 August, 1926.

A view over the rooftops of Sydney with an easterly aspect taken from a high vantage point near the intersection of Pitt and Bridge Streets, with ships at anchor in the harbour and the hills of the eastern suburbs rising to the horizon in the distance

In copyright:
Copyright holder:: Lisa Moore
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and courtesy Lisa Moore

Title from vendor catalogue

Variously titled in published sources as 'Rooftops near Sydney Harbour' Bridget McDonnell Gallery website, 'View Over The Rooftop, 1926' in Leonard Joel Weekly Sale: LJW8158: Interiors & Jewellery - Art Salon: Lot 3067, ‘Sydney from the Housetops’ in Table Talk, Monday 1 November 1926, p. 51 and ‘Roof tops of Sydney’ in Art in Australia, 1 October 1933, No. 52, p. 29.

Signed and dated lower right

Watercolour was removed from its frame for conservation reasons in November 2019.