DAVID GOLDBLATT (SOUTH AFRICA 1930-2018), A HOUSE-PAINTER AT HOME, PRETORIA STREET, HILLBROW, JANUARY 1973 ,printed in 1981
Provenance : Provenance Private collection, Cape Town. Acquired directly from the artist.
Exhibited : Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona, 'Fifty-One Years: David Goldblatt', February to May 2002.; South African National Gallery, Cape Town, ‘David Goldblatt: 35 Years of Photographs’, April 1983 to January 1984.
Literature : Coetzee, J. M., Diserens, C. (2001). 'Fifty-One Years: David Goldblatt'. Barcelona: Museu d’Art Contemporani and Actar. illustrated on p.164.; Goldblatt, D. (2011). 'Johannesburg Photographs 1948 - 2010: David Goldblatt'. Cape Town: Umuzi, illustrated on p.207.
Notes : Notes: Unique print, hand-printed by the artist. Another edition of this work is held in the permanent collection of The Victoria and Albert Museum, London. In the early to mid-1970s, David Goldblatt turned his camera to the Johannesburg neighbourhood of Hillbrow – then a buzzing, up and coming community with dense housing. Goldblatt’s images of the time were not documentary street scenes, but rather masterful portrait studies: the city documented through its people. These images are careful and nuanced observations of individuals – autonomous and belonging wholly to the complicated political and cultural moment they inhabit. Collections: The artist is represented in numerous local and international collections, notably, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town.; Institute of Chicago, Illinois.; Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona.; Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Getty Center, Los Angeles.
Condition_report : The condition is mint.
