Contemporary Art
Live Auction, 16 February 2019
Contemporary Auction
Lot Estimate
ZAR 200 000 - 300 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
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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