Lot 56: ALBERT JOSEPH MOORE, A.R.W.S.

PROPERTY FROM AN AMERICAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
1841 - 1893
WAITING TO CROSS
oil on canvas
67 by 45cm., 26½ by 17¾in.

London, Grosvenor Gallery, 1888, no.110;
London, St. Jude's in Whitechapel, 1889, no.159;
London, Grafton Galleries, Exhibition of Pictures by the Late Mr Albert Moore, 1894, no.187 (lent by Lord Davey);
London, West Ham Public Hall, Free Picture Exhibition, 1898;
Turin, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Il sacro e il profano nell'arte dei simbolisti, 1969, no.48;
Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, The Sacred and Profane in Symbolist Art, 1969, no.39;
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Laing Art Gallery, Albert Moore and his Contemporaries, 1972, no.71

Athenaeum, 19 May 1888, p.638;
'The Grafton Gallery Collection', Art Journal, 1894, p.89;
Alfred Lys Baldry, Albert Moore: His Life and Works, 1894, pp.20, 62, 63, 82, 105, illustrated facing p.62;
R. Muther, The History of Modern Painting, vol. III, 1896, illustrated p.133;
R. Sturgis, The Appreciation of Pictures: A Handbook, 1905, pp.203-205, illustrated pl.XLVI;
Jeremy Maas, Victorian Painters, 1969, illustrated p.187;
Robyn Asleson, Albert Moore, 2000, p.188

Probably bought from the Grosvenor Gallery exhibition in 1888 by Sir Horace Davey;
Sold by Davey's executors, Christie's, 20 April 1907, lot 78, bought by Agnew's for 260 gns.;
Mrs Charlotte Frank, from whom bought by Sir David Piper before 1972;
Isabel Goldsmith-Patino;
Christie's, 7 June 2007, lot 22;
Private collection