Year: 2014

My belief is that you enter into a spiritual state through sex……. Don’t you feel that when you are making love you are moving into a situation of cosmic consciousness? Youre not human anymore. That is Satori [enlightenment]. And that is why I draw erotic pictures. I liberate many people this way. I could still be put in jail for it. Walter Battiss. (1)

His love of the arts and his knowledge of diverse cultural forms enabled Robert Hodgins to draw on a range of characters and plots to delight both his viewers intellect and senses.

In October 1948, shortly after giving up his studio at Ygdrasil, Alexis Preller sailed up the East coast of Africa to the Seychelles. He wrote to his sister Minnie about his experience and production in the Seychelles: I cant tell you how happy I am in my work and in the way I am fitting in with the people around me. It’s almost as if there was a place prepared for me and I was meant to come here if all goes well, at the present rate I will have a complete show with me by the time I land at least 30 things…(1)

At a time when the strictures of form often overwhelmed an artist, this example of a Frans Oerder still life is remarkable for its looseness of style.

Penny Siopis emerged onto the South African art scene with her now highly sought-after cake paintings.

277 lots of Important South African and International art are set to go under the hammer at Strauss & Co’s Johannesburg auction on 30 June 2014.

A plethora of no less than ten works by internationally acclaimed artist, Alexis Preller, steal the show at Strauss & Co’s major art auction in Johannesburg on Monday 30 June.

At Strauss & Co’s major auction of Important South African & International Art which took place yesterday evening in Johannesburg, over 200 artworks went under the hammer, achieving a total of R36 million.

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All eyes are on Strauss & Co’s upcoming auction scheduled for 17 March 2014 at the Vineyard Hotel, Newlands in Cape Town. Whether your interests lie in South African or international fine arts, decorative arts or jewellery, there is plenty to tempt the senses.