Strauss & Co offers accessible works in year-end auctions

27 Nov 2025

November 2025: Strauss & Co has launched its year-end auctions, with an impressive variety and choice of modern and contemporary art across themed sessions running between 20November and 8 December. Five different concurrent sessions are being conducted in a timed online format, with a further separate auction of selected contemporary work, titled In the Now, running online until 9 December. The auctions are geared towards emerging collectors and those looking for a desirable piece of fine art as a special gift or even as a treat for themselves.

Sessions run the gamut, from a session titled Re/View,  presenting works from previous auctions at accessible prices and featuring household names across the modern and contemporary spectrum, including Maud Sumner, Colbert Mashile and the well-loved Norman Catherine.

Focused sessions on paintings, sculpture, and works on paper also form individual sessions within the sale. The latter, in particular, represents the chance to collect some prominent South African modern and contemporary artists at accessible prices – the likes of, Irma Stern’s Group of Figures (estimate R15 000 – 20 000), William Kentridge’s Lord Mayor of Derby Road (estimate R40 000 – 60 000), from the Industry and Idleness series, and , Sam Nhlengethwa’s Under the Bridge (estimate R 5 000 – 7 000) among others. 

A separate session within the sale is titled Art Club, which forms an extension of Strauss & Co’s commendable and hugely popular market educational initiative of the same name. Each Art Club event features Strauss & Co art specialists dealing with a body of art works or the work of particular artists in more depth, broadening knowledge and appreciation for the collecting public. For the current sale session, the same art specialists make personal selections of work they feel is collectible. Keep an eye out for great works by Robert Hodgins, William Kentridge and Alexis Preller, all highly prized in Strauss & Co live sales.

A separate but concurrent sale focuses exclusively on contemporary work. Titled  In the Now, it too is characterised by affordability and accessibility, offering ways for fledgling or non-specialist collectors to engage and purchase work that interests or impassions them. Watch out for superb work by Cape Town’s Jake Aikman, and work by Brett Murray, the satirical sculptor who has a major exhibition of his sculptural work opening at the Norval Foundation in December.