Modern and Contemporary Art: Evening Sale

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  • David Goldblatt; Ouma Hester Mostert, who came from Calitzdorp to Gamkaskloof as a 17-year-old bride, sitting at the door of her voorkamer. I asked if she would allow me to make a photograph of her. Would I send her a copy? she replied. I said: Yes, in about about three months' time. Don't worry. I'll be dead then, she said. The photograph was made on or about 1 January. She died on 7 April. Gamkaskloof, Cape Province (Western Cape), 1968
  • David Goldblatt; Ouma Hester Mostert, who came from Calitzdorp to Gamkaskloof as a 17-year-old bride, sitting at the door of her voorkamer. I asked if she would allow me to make a photograph of her. Would I send her a copy? she replied. I said: Yes, in about about three months' time. Don't worry. I'll be dead then, she said. The photograph was made on or about 1 January. She died on 7 April. Gamkaskloof, Cape Province (Western Cape), 1968
  • David Goldblatt; Ouma Hester Mostert, who came from Calitzdorp to Gamkaskloof as a 17-year-old bride, sitting at the door of her voorkamer. I asked if she would allow me to make a photograph of her. Would I send her a copy? she replied. I said: Yes, in about about three months' time. Don't worry. I'll be dead then, she said. The photograph was made on or about 1 January. She died on 7 April. Gamkaskloof, Cape Province (Western Cape), 1968
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David Goldblatt
South African 1930-2018
Ouma Hester Mostert, who came from Calitzdorp to Gamkaskloof as a 17-year-old bride, sitting at the door of her voorkamer. I asked if she would allow me to make a photograph of her. Would I send her a copy? she replied. I said: Yes, in about about three months' time. Don't worry. I'll be dead then, she said. The photograph was made on or about 1 January. She died on 7 April. Gamkaskloof, Cape Province (Western Cape), 1968

signed, dated 1967, inscribed 'An Old Lady Who Was Waiting to Die' and 'Die Hel' in pencil on the reverse

silver gelatin print
image size: 19 by 13cm; 42 by 34,5 by 3,5cm including frame

Exhibited

Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, Mostly Unseen, 18 May to 8 June 2002, another example exhibited with the title An Old Lady Who Was Waiting to Die.

Centre Pompidou, Paris, David Goldblatt Retrospective Exhibition, 21 February to 13 May 2018, another example exhibited.

Provenance

Goodman Gallery, 17 September 2006.

Private Collection.

Literature

The Standard Bank of South Africa and Goodman Gallery (2015) David Goldblatt: The Pursuit of Values, exhibition catalogue, Johannesburg: The Standard Bank of South Africa and Goodman Gallery, another example illustrated on page 59 with the title Ouma Hester Mostert sitting at the door of her Voorkamer, Gamkaskloof. 1 January 1968.

David Goldblatt (2020) Some Afrikaners Photographed, Germany: Steidl, another example illustrated, unpaginated.

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