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David Goldblatt

South African 1930-2018 


David Goldblatt became a full-time photographer in the 1960s after selling the family clothing store he inherited from his parents. He regarded himself as an observer and a critic of South African society, not an activist, and a photographer rather than an artist. Although his work was not overtly politically charged, it documented and reflected the social circumstances and struggles of life under apartheid and the country’s landscapes altered by human occupation. Goldblatt founded the Market Photography Workshop in Johannesburg in 1989, and published numerous books on his work including On the Mines (with Nadine Gordimer, Struik 1973), Some Afrikaners Photographed (Murray Crawford, 1975), and In Boksburg (The Gallery Press, 1982). He was the first South African to have a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, in 1998, and exhibited at Documenta 11 and 12 in Kassel, Germany, and the 54th Biennale in Venice in 2011. Goldblatt won numerous awards including the 2006 Hasselblad award, the 2009 Henri Cartier-Bresson Award, and the 2013 ICP (International Center of Photography) Infinity Award.


86 lots offered      72.09% sold      ZAR 7 598 312
 

  Including Premium and VAT Results include Buyer's Premium and VAT
David Goldblatt; Daniel Cloete, Goat Farmer. Pootjiespram, Richtersveld. Northern Cape, 23 December 2003
18 Sep 2024
ZAR 150 000 - 200 000
 
David Goldblatt; On the Bank, President Steyn No.4 Shaft, Welkom. June 1969
28 May 2024
Sold for ZAR 138 000
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
David Goldblatt; David Goldblatt: Particulars (2003), Woman Sun-bathing, Fellside, Johannesburg. 1975 and WOman Resting at the Trading Store, Hobeni, Bomvanaland, Transkei, 1975, Particulars series
28 May 2024
ZAR 50 000 - 70 000
 
David Goldblatt; Phuthaditjhaba, Qwa Qwa, 1989; Kith, Kin & Khaya, two
13 May 2024
Sold for ZAR 23 450
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
David Goldblatt; Memorial to a holiday maker, Bob O’Neill, who drowned here on 4 December 1990 after suffering a heart attack while fishing. The quotation from Psalm 23, He leadeth me beside the still waters, was painted by O’Neill’s son-in-law and has been renewed every year since by a local resident, John Burns. Pearly Beach, Western Cape. 25 January 2004
19 Mar 2024
Sold for ZAR 187 600
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
David Goldblatt; David Goldblatt: Particulars (2003) and Woman Sun-bathing, Fellside, Johannesburg. 1975, Particulars series
11 Mar 2024
Sold for ZAR 17 588
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
David Goldblatt; On the street corner of Pim and Goch Streets, under the M1, Newtown, December 1975
19 Feb 2024
Sold for ZAR 257 950
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
David Goldblatt; Squatter camp, slimes dam and the city from the southwest, Johannesburg. 12 July 2003
19 Feb 2024
ZAR 300 000 - 400 000
 
David Goldblatt; Victoria Cobokana with Her Children
8 Nov 2023
ZAR 200 000 - 300 000
 
David Goldblatt; Cells
8 Nov 2023
Sold for ZAR 211 050
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
David Goldblatt; Adverts on the Wall at the Base of the Telkom Microwave Tower, Hillbrow, 15 January 2002
14 Aug 2023
ZAR 100 000 - 150 000
 
David Goldblatt; Jewish Cemetery, Sutherland
10 Jul 2023
Sold for ZAR 11 725
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT