David Goldblatt — Art Hub

Artist

David Goldblatt

David Goldblatt

1930–2018

132681

Works

88

Years lived

Painter

Style

David’s work is defined by its painter sensibility — an enduring influence on generations that followed. Most artists are dead; following is a declaration of love.

Selected works

132681 pieces

8:45 p.m. Going home, Marabastad–Waterval bus: 45 minutes to the terminal

8:45 p.m. Going home, Marabastad–Waterval bus: 45 minutes to the terminal

David Goldblatt South African, 1930-2018

2:40 a.m. Going to work, Mathysloop, KwaNdebele

2:40 a.m. Going to work, Mathysloop, KwaNdebele

David Goldblatt South African, 1930-2018

4:00 a.m. Going to work, Wolwekraal–Marabastad bus: More than an hour and a half still to go

4:00 a.m. Going to work, Wolwekraal–Marabastad bus: More than an hour and a half still to go

David Goldblatt South African, 1930-2018

5:52 a.m. Going to work in 2012: Buses from former KwaNdebele homeland stream down the road to Pretoria

5:52 a.m. Going to work in 2012: Buses from former KwaNdebele homeland stream down the road to Pretoria

David Goldblatt South African, 1930-2018

3:15 a.m. Going to work: standing room only now, on the Wolwekraal-Marabastad bus, which is licensed to carry 62 sitting and 29 standing passengers

3:15 a.m. Going to work: standing room only now, on the Wolwekraal-Marabastad bus, which is licensed to carry 62 sitting and 29 standing passengers

David Goldblatt South African, 1930-2018

A.m./p.m. travellers from KwaNdebele buying their weekly season tickets at the PUTCO Bus Depot in Pretoria

A.m./p.m. travellers from KwaNdebele buying their weekly season tickets at the PUTCO Bus Depot in Pretoria

David Goldblatt South African, 1930-2018

Elder of the Dutch Reformed Church walking home with his family after the Sunday service, Carnavon, Cape Province (Northern Cape), January 1968

Elder of the Dutch Reformed Church walking home with his family after the Sunday service, Carnavon, Cape Province (Northern Cape), January 1968

David Goldblatt South African, 1930-2018

The farmer's son with his nursemaid, the farm Heimweeberg, near Nietverdiend in the Marco Bushveld. Transvaal (North-West Province), 1964

The farmer's son with his nursemaid, the farm Heimweeberg, near Nietverdiend in the Marco Bushveld. Transvaal (North-West Province), 1964

David Goldblatt South African, 1930-2018

Family at Lunch, Wheatlands Plot, Randfontein, 1962

Family at Lunch, Wheatlands Plot, Randfontein, 1962

David Goldblatt South African, 1930-2018

3:30 a.m. Going to work: The interior of this bus is dimly lit by a small green bulb at one end of the aisle and a small red one at the other. But once it reaches the highway, the headlights of the stream of buses and taxis taking workers to Pretoria are an almost continuous glare through the rear window, from the series "The Transported of KwaNdebele"

3:30 a.m. Going to work: The interior of this bus is dimly lit by a small green bulb at one end of the aisle and a small red one at the other. But once it reaches the highway, the headlights of the stream of buses and taxis taking workers to Pretoria are an almost continuous glare through the rear window, from the series "The Transported of KwaNdebele"

David Goldblatt South African, 1930-2018

Interior of St. Mark's, Venice

Interior of St. Mark's, Venice

David Dalhoff Neal (American, 1838–1915)

American Collectors (Fred and Marcia Weisman)

American Collectors (Fred and Marcia Weisman)

David Hockney English, 1937-2026

A child from the Sudeten region of Czechoslovakia plays with a homemade doll. Her family, temporarily housed in the ruins of a military barracks, were among thousands of displaced persons in the region, Vienna, Austria

A child from the Sudeten region of Czechoslovakia plays with a homemade doll. Her family, temporarily housed in the ruins of a military barracks, were among thousands of displaced persons in the region, Vienna, Austria

Chim (David Seymour) American, born Poland, 1911–1956

Lamentation over the Body of Christ

Lamentation over the Body of Christ

Gerard David (Netherlandish, c. 1460–1523)

Old Sarum

Old Sarum

David Lucas (English, 1802-1881) after John Constable (English, 1776-1837)

Tanktotem I

Tanktotem I

David Smith American, 1906-1965

River Stour, Suffolk

River Stour, Suffolk

David Lucas (English, 1802-1881) after John Constable (English, 1776-1837)

The cannon 'Mons Meg' at Edinburgh Castle, and a private in the 2nd battalion of Royal Scots who garrisoned the Castle in 1846

The cannon 'Mons Meg' at Edinburgh Castle, and a private in the 2nd battalion of Royal Scots who garrisoned the Castle in 1846

David Octavius Hill (Scottish, 1802–1870) and Robert Adamson (Scottish, 1821–1848)

Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows: the Rainbow

Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows: the Rainbow

David Lucas (English, 1802-1881) after John Constable (English, 1776-1837)