Press Office
2009 Archive
- Dec 05. The Icon Project
- Dec 02. Strauss & Co. breaks R 100 million – now South Africa's leading art auction house
- Oct 13. Blue chip art auction house at the helm of the market in its first year of operation.
- Oct 08. Millions paid for South African Art & Antiques
- Oct 01. Internationally acknowledged art expert joins South Africa's leading Fine Art Auction House
- Sep 11. South African Auction confirms strengths in the art market
- Sep 10. Powerful study of an Athleteby Fanie Eloff
- Sep 10. Arresting 18th century Cape Buffet, a welcome surprise for collectors
- Aug 15. Important British, Continental and South African Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture - Edoardo Villa
- Aug 15. Strauss & Co. presents a bigger all embracing auction of South African Art
- Mar 09. Post Sale Press Release - Inaugural Auction of Important South African Paintings Watercolours and Sculpture
- Feb 24. South Africa's best-known painting to be auctioned
Millions paid for South African Art & Antiques
October 8, 2009 [ Archived ]
If the price of art and antiques is anything to go by, South Africa is fast coming out of it's recession.
At an auction conducted in Cape Town tonight by Strauss & Co., a new record price of R1 058 million was achieved for an 18th century Cape coromandel buffet, a new record price for a piece of South African furniture at auction. A pair of Georgian silver wine coolers by Paul Storr, sold for R1.6 million.
It was however South African paintings that stole the show, with four paintings by Irma Stern selling for over R16 million, the highest price being for a portrait which fetched R5.57 million. Other artists whose paintings sold for over 1 million were Wolf Kibel and Jean Welz each realising R1.225 million respectively.
The auction realised a total of R39 million.
