# David Botha artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/david-botha/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:34:04.293Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: South African
- Movements: Realist Impressionism
- Common media: Oil painting, Graphic art and works on paper

## About David Botha

David Botha (1921–1995) was a South African landscape painter and graphic artist associated in the available public sources with a realist-impressionist tradition. He is especially identified with oil paintings of rain-wet Cape streets and atmospheric views of the Boland, including Paarl and Stellenbosch. Winter scenes recur in the biographical description, making season, weather, reflected light, and regional setting useful visual cues when examining works attributed to him. Collectors may encounter Botha chiefly through South African landscape painting, together with graphic art and works on paper. Appraisily's matched market index also places works under broader categories including paintings, prints, mixed media, sculpture, decorative art, and editions, although its category evidence is described as broad or sparse. Identity, dates, and attribution should be checked carefully because the collected source pack contains only one detailed biography and no museum, estate, foundation, or catalogue-raisonné record.

## Common works and media

The most securely documented works are oil landscapes depicting rain-wet Cape streets and atmospheric Boland settings, especially views connected with Paarl and Stellenbosch and scenes with a winter mood. Graphic art and works on paper may also appear. Broader auction-index categories include prints, mixed media, sculpture, decorative art, and editions, but the available evidence does not establish those categories as equally characteristic of Botha's practice.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin with comparable works matching the medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, and attribution strength of the object under review. Appraisily's current public index reports 82 matched auction records, including 28 priced records dated from 2009 through 2025, but that index is not a complete catalogue of the artist's market. Signature and inscription details, restoration, surface quality, provenance, exhibition history, edition information, and catalogue references can all affect comparability. Public realized prices should be compared consistently because reported totals may treat premiums and fees differently. Private transactions, missing feeds, and later attribution revisions may also fall outside the available record.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q31739619
- Wikipedia: https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Botha
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/david-botha/