Year: 2018

Strauss & Co is delighted to announce its participation in the form of an Art Hub at the Trumpet Building, located on the Keyes Art Mile in Johannesburg, to coincide with the FNB Joburg Art Fair (6–9 September 2018). This partnership, which is spearheaded by the Keyes Art Mile and coordinated by respected curator Lucy McGarry, includes an extensive education and hospitality programme.

Strauss & Co is proud to be among the finalists for the 21st Business and Arts South Africa (BASA) Awards, partnered by Hollard.

The current Strauss & Co online auction includes an impressive selection of works from the Natal School as well as an outstanding representation of Scandinavian jewellery, silver and furniture.

Strauss & Co is thrilled to be the recipient of this year’s Chairman’s Premier Award at the 21st BASA Awards which were held today at the Victoria Yards complex in Lorentzville, Johannesburg. The prestigious award comes in the year of the company’s 10th anniversary.

A magisterial floral still life by Irma Stern, South Africa’s foremost painter, is the highlight of Strauss & Co’s bountiful crop of offerings at its forthcoming spring sale in Cape Town on 15 October. Painted in 1947, Dahlias (estimate R8 – 12 million) is a peak-period Stern depicting a favoured flower and additionally claims an impeccable provenance.

The landscape genre is a key part of the story of South African art and remains a highly sought-after collectable at auction. More than half of the twelve most valuable artists sold at auction by Strauss & Co since 2009 worked with landscape, including Walter Battiss, Maggie Laubser, Hugo Naudé and Cecil Skotnes, but none were as faithful to this country’s geographical abundance as JH Pierneef.

The Late Peter and Regina Strack Collection

Strauss & Co, South Africa’s leading auction house, is honoured to present 20 works in various media from the Namibia-based collection of the Late Peter and Regina Strack. The sale, which includes three rare Adolph Jentsch oils and a major Fritz Krampe oil, will be offered in a dedicated segment at the auction house’s forthcoming sale in Cape Town on 15 October.

A commanding selection of works from single-owner collections, including a museum-quality Irma Stern still life, Namibian landscapes by Adolph Jentsch and an important Japanese satsuma vase, are some of the highlights from Strauss & Co’s forthcoming Spring sale. The sale, which also includes a late-period landscape by JH Pierneef from 1945 and two striking portraits by Maggie Laubser from the 1920s, will be held in Cape Town on 15 October at the Vineyard Hotel in Cape Town.

• Strauss & Co auction totals R50 million, with a 76% sold rate, the highest in the current market • Stern masterpiece realises R9.1 million • New world auction records achieved for Fritz Krampe and Judith Mason A vivid floral still life by South Africa’s foremost painter, Irma Stern, was the top lot at Strauss & Co’s R50-million grossing spring sale in Cape Town, selling for R9.1 million. The sale, Strauss & Co’s fourth and penultimate live sale of the year, also saw two new world records achieved for works by Judith Mason and Fritz Krampe