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David Brown

South African 1951-2016 


David Brown is best known for his metal sculptures of human figures orchestrated into allegorical tableaus. Suggestive of carnivals and ritualised combat, his speculative scenes offer barbed commentary on late-apartheid South African life. Brown’s dystopian vision, which he elaborated with anachronistic fashions and analogue technologies, is in the current vernacular pure steampunk. A graduate of the Michaelis School of Fine Art, where he studied design and photography, Brown was persuaded to pursue sculpture in 1975 by his father-in-law, artist Cecil Skotnes. He initially produced wooden totems, but in 1980 exhibited dogs carved from Jarrah, an Australian hardwood, clothed with metal jackets. Brown started to work in bronze in 1984. Brown drew inspiration for these dystopian allegories from the scenes he observed at his Woodstock studio, from which he witnessed the demolition of District Six and often saw camouflaged policemen gather before their sorties into townships with their armoured vehicles.

Sean O’Toole


55 lots offered      47.27% sold      ZAR 1 434 258
 

  Including Premium and VAT Results include Buyer's Premium and VAT
David Brown; Boxing
28 Jun 2022
Starting at ZAR 15 000
 
David Brown; Buccaneer
28 Jun 2022
Starting at ZAR 20 000
 
David Brown; Maquette for The Last Hatted Autocrat
5 Apr 2022
Sold for ZAR 34 140
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
David Brown; The Last Hatted Autocrat
9 Nov 2021
Sold for ZAR 23 450
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
David Brown; Ysterkop
9 Nov 2021
Starting at ZAR 60 000
 
David Brown; Soldier at the Outpost 2
7 Nov 2021
Starting at ZAR 45 000
 
David Brown; Through
10 Aug 2021
Sold for ZAR 34 140
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
David Brown; Boxer
10 Aug 2021
Sold for ZAR 45 520
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
David Brown; Untitled
17 May 2021
Starting at ZAR 400 000
 
David Brown; Last Hatted Autocrat
23 Nov 2020
Starting at ZAR 40 000
 
David Brown; Untitled
8 Nov 2020
Starting at ZAR 500 000
 
David Brown; Untitled I
16 Mar 2020
Starting at ZAR 30 000
 

Results in green indicate post sales.