# David Goldblatt - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T01:35:41.386Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 98
- Lots with prices: 59
- First auction date: 2009-05-19
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-26
- Median realised price: $45,000
- Price range: $438 to $320,000

## Market Takeaway
David Goldblatt shows solid auction liquidity with 98 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $45,000. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 9 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-11-26.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($45,000\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $4,500 and $140,000.
- Auction totals can include buyer premiums or fees depending on reporting, so compare like\-for\-like when possible.
- Condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence can move value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 1.7% (1 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 32.2% (19 sales)
- $10,000\+: 66.1% (39 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 9
- Previous 12 months sales: 9
- Recent 12 months median: $95,000
- Previous 12 months median: $120,000
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-26
- Days since latest sale: 84
- Market velocity: moderate

## Top Auction Houses
- Aspire Art: 43 lots
- Strauss & Co: 14 lots
- Bonhams: 11 lots
- Christie's: 9 lots
- Piasa: 4 lots
- Dreweatts 1759: 3 lots
- Phillips: 2 lots
- Sotheby's: 2 lots
- Stephan Welz & Co: 2 lots
- Swann Auction Galleries: 2 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-11-20 | David Goldblatt \(South Africa 1930\-2018\) The Destruction of District Six under the Group Areas Act, Cape Town, Cape, 5 May 1982 | Aspire Art | ZAR 120,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-david-goldblatt-south-africa-1930-2018-the-destruction-of-district-six-under-the-group-areas-act-cape-town-cape-5-may-1982-33-c-2df49e9955
2. 2024-09-11 | David Goldblatt , 'The bedroom of Ozzie and Sarah Docrat before its destruction under the Group Areas Act, Fietas, Johannesburg. 1977' | Aspire Art | ZAR 150,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-david-goldblatt-the-bedroom-of-ozzie-and-sarah-docrat-before-its-destruction-under-the-group-areas-act-fietas-johannesburg-1977-56-c-e244f8c845
3. 2024-09-11 | David Goldblatt , 'Nelson Mandela, Houghton, Johannesburg, April 1994' | Aspire Art | ZAR 300,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-david-goldblatt-nelson-mandela-houghton-johannesburg-april-1994-55-c-91d4eee808
4. 2023-11-16 | DAVID GOLDBLATT \(SOUTH AFRICA 1930\-2018\) \| FIETAS | Aspire Art | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-david-goldblatt-south-africa-1930-2018-fietas-54-c-beb4a02a99
5. 2023-09-13 | David Goldblatt \(South Africa 1930\-2018\) Girl in her new tutu on the stoep, Boksburg, Transvaal | Aspire Art | ZAR 320,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-david-goldblatt-south-africa-1930-2018-girl-in-her-new-tutu-on-the-stoep-boksburg-transvaal-20-c-949457a9ea
6. 2025-11-26 | David Goldblatt \(South Africa 1930\-2018\), Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk, Krause and 5th Streets, Vrededorp. November 1976 | Aspire Art | ZAR 95,000
7. 2025-11-26 | David Goldblatt \(South Africa 1930\-2018\), Young Woman, Vrededorp. December 1976 | Aspire Art | ZAR 95,000
8. 2025-10-08 | David Goldblatt \(South African, 1930\-2018\) 'Abraham Thipe with one of his arrangements and his deckchair, Newtown, 14 August 1990' | Bonhams | £2,800
9. 2025-09-17 | David Goldblatt \(South Africa 1930\-2018\) , Nadine Gordimer, at her home in Parktown, Johannesburg. South  Africa, 1983 | Aspire Art | N/A
10. 2025-09-17 | David Goldblatt \(South Africa 1930\-2018\) , Picnic at Hartebeespoort Dam on New Year’s Day, Transvaal \(North\-West Province\), 1965 | Aspire Art | N/A
11. 2025-06-25 | David Goldblatt \(South Africa 1930\-2018\) , New Mining Recruits, 1970 | Aspire Art | N/A
12. 2025-06-25 | David Goldblatt \(South Africa 1930\-2018\) , Girl in Her New Tutu on the Stoep, Boksburg, Transvaal, 1980 | Aspire Art | ZAR 240,000
13. 2025-03-12 | David Goldblatt \(South Africa 1930\-2018\), Lena Sebalo in the shebeen of Betty Skejena, 1347b White City, Jabavu, Soweto | Aspire Art | N/A
14. 2025-03-12 | David Goldblatt \(South Africa 1930\-2018\), The last of the bigger rocks has just been dropped into a kibble. Now, with shovels, the team "lashes" \(loads\) the small stuff into the kibble, | Aspire Art | ZAR 240,000
15. 2024-12-17 | DAVID GOLDBLATT \(1930\-2018\) Untitled \[Child on bed\]. Circa 1972. | Swann Auction Galleries | $2,750
16. 2024-12-17 | DAVID GOLDBLATT \(1930\-2018\) Lulu Gebasne and Solomon Mlutshana, Mofolo Park, Soweto. 1972. | Swann Auction Galleries | $2,750
17. 2024-09-11 | David Goldblatt , 'She said to him 'You be the driver and I'll be the madam,' then they picked up the fender and posed, Hillbrow, 1975' | Aspire Art | ZAR 200,000
18. 2024-03-27 | David Goldblatt \(South African, born 1930\) Joe Maloney, boiler\-house attendant, City Deep Gold Mine, 1966 \(framed\) | Bonhams | N/A
19. 2024-03-06 | David Goldblatt \(South Africa 1930\-2018\), Saturday afternoon in Sunward Park, Boksburg | Aspire Art | ZAR 160,000
20. 2024-03-06 | David Goldblatt \(South Africa 1930\-2018\), Portrait of Hugh Masekela | Aspire Art | ZAR 70,000
21. 2023-11-16 | DAVID GOLDBLATT \(SOUTH AFRICA 1930\-2018\) \| 8:45 P.M. GOING HOME: MARABASTAD\-WATERVAL BUS: 8:45 P.M., 45 MINUTES TO THE TERMINAL., 1984 | Aspire Art | ZAR 140,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-david-goldblatt-south-africa-1930-2018-8-45-p-m-going-home-marabastad-waterval-bus-8-45-p-m-45-minutes-to-the-terminal-1984-55-c-32742d7b0b
22. 2023-11-16 | DAVID GOLDBLATT \(SOUTH AFRICA 1930\-2018\) \| HILLBROW, 1973, THE HOUSEPAINTER'S WIFE | Aspire Art | N/A
23. 2023-11-16 | DAVID GOLDBLATT \(SOUTH AFRICA 1930\-2018\) \| AT THE SUMMIT CLUB POOL ON CLAIM STREET HILLBROW | Aspire Art | ZAR 150,000
24. 2023-09-13 | David Goldblatt \(South Africa 1930\-2018\) Untitled \(studio portrait of an artist\) | Aspire Art | ZAR 46,000

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