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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. In 2018 a large scale retrospective of over 200 photographs and approximately 100 unpublished documents was exhibited at the Centre Pompidou. 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.


90 lots offered      73.33% sold      ZAR 7 889 637

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David Goldblatt; A flat cleaner going for a walk on his afternoon off, Hillbrow, Johannesburg. June 1972
18 Sep 2024
Sold for ZAR 175 875
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David Goldblatt; Patience Poni visiting her parents Ruth and Jackson Poni, 1510A Emdeni South, Soweto, 1972
18 Sep 2024
Sold for ZAR 234 500
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David Goldblatt; Adverts on the Wall at the Base of the Telkom Microwave Tower, Hillbrow, 15 January 2002
18 Sep 2024
Starting at ZAR 100 000
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David Goldblatt; Windmills, Ventersburg, Free State, 6 August 2003
18 Sep 2024
Starting at ZAR 300 000
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David Goldblatt; Jackal, Kraairivier, between Laingsburg and Sutherland, Northern Cape. 16 August 2003
18 Sep 2024
Sold for ZAR 111 388
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David Goldblatt; Anna Boois, Namaqualand, Northern Cape, 20 September 2003, Intersections Series
18 Sep 2024
ZAR 180 000 - 240 000
 
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 140 700
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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
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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
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David Goldblatt; David Goldblatt: Particulars (2003) and Woman Sun-bathing, Fellside, Johannesburg. 1975, Particulars series
11 Mar 2024
Sold for ZAR 17 588
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