Strauss & co - 2017 Mid-year Review

David Goldblatt Ericson Mgomane’s advert, Republic Road, Darrenwood, diptych Sold R125 048 David Goldblatt A Farmworker’s Cottage and a Navigation Beacon for Air Traffic, Groenfontein, Sutherland, Northern Cape, 17 August 2003 Sold R147 784 Billy Monk The Catacombs Series, ten Sold R181 888 David Goldblatt, the first South African ever to present a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, also performed well. Goldblatt’s diptych, Ericson Mgomane’s advert, Republic Road, Darrenwood (2002), sold for R125 048, doubling its high estimate, and his 2003 study of a farmworker’s cottage in Sutherland achieved R147 784 (high estimate R80 000). A suite of ten candid portraits by Billy Monk, a nightclub bouncer and amateur photographer admired by Goldblatt, sold for R181 888 (high estimate R120 000). (All quoted prices inclusive of premium) 19