Contemporary Art

Live Auction, 16 February 2019

Contemporary Auction

Sold for

ZAR 227 600
Lot 59
  • David Goldblatt; Bowling Green and clubhouse, Crown Mines, Johannesburg (2_5460)


Lot Estimate
ZAR 200 000 - 300 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 227 600

About this Item

South African 1930-2018
Bowling Green and clubhouse, Crown Mines, Johannesburg (2_5460)

signed and dated 1969 on the reverse

edition number 4/10

silver gelatin photograph on fibre-based paper
44 by 44cm excluding frame

Notes

In his last interview, photographer David Goldblatt spoke to Australian journalist Tim Douglas about his rich legacy:

‘I am a photographer,’ he says. ‘I don’t hold exhibitions to glorify my artistic skill. These things I capture in my work are real. I photograph things that are important to me and to society. I want the pictures to be seen, because I want the message to be heard.’1

1. Tim Douglas. (2018) The Final Frame: An Interview with David Goldblatt, [Online] Available: https://www.mca.com.au/stories-andideas/final-frame-interview-david-goldblatt/ [7 December 2018].

Exhibited

Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, David Goldblatt: On the Mines, 2012.

Literature

David Goldblatt and Nadine Gordimer (1973). On the Mines, Cape Town: Struik. Page 76 and illustrated on page 77.

 


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