Artists

From Albert Adams to Portia Zvavahera, Strauss & Co maintains a detailed database of every artist sold at auction since 2009. Whether it is painting, sculpture, works on paper, photography, ceramics or new media, this searchable database lists by artist every lot offered and provides aggregated data useful to collectors. Famous South African artists like William Kentridge, JH Pierneef, Alexis Preller and Irma Stern are introduced with helpful biographies along with the best contemporary artists.



Value your Art?Do you know the value of your Art?

Diane Victor

South African 1964- 


Victor’s work is renowned for its biting critique of contemporary society, corruption, and the legacies of colonialism and apartheid. Her exceptional draughtsmanship and technical innovation in drawing and printmaking make her work instantly recognisable. She has taught drawing and printmaking at various South African institutions and has exhibited widely.

In 1988, Diane Victor, then a recent BA Fine Arts graduate from Wits, became the youngest recipient of the Volkskas Atelier Award (now the ABSA L’Atelier Award). In 2009, she originated and editioned a series of drypoints at the David Krut Workshop, called Birth of a Nation. She exhibited these works along with a series of smoke drawing portraits at David Krut Projects, New York, in 2010, returning to the US in January 2011 to show at Grinnell College in Iowa. Victor was the subject of TAXI-013 (a publication in the David Krut Publishing TAXI Art Book series) as well as Burning the Candle at Both Ends, a monograph published to coincide with Victor’s two-part exhibition, Ashes to Ashes and Smoke to Dust, at the University of Johannesburg Art Gallery. Victor’s works are included in many collections locally and internationally, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art - both in New York, the New York Public Library, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art.


246 lots offered      65.85% sold      ZAR 6 510 003
 

  Including Premium and VAT Results include Buyer's Premium and VAT
Diane Victor; The Raising of Comrade Lazarus
9 Nov 2021
Sold for ZAR 9 967
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Diane Victor; Hammering the Anvil
9 Nov 2021
Sold for ZAR 7 035
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Diane Victor; The Three Fates
9 Nov 2021
Starting at ZAR 150 000
 
Diane Victor; Baited
9 Nov 2021
Sold for ZAR 96 730
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Diane Victor; Learning Posture
9 Nov 2021
Sold for ZAR 125 180
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Diane Victor; Nastagio Degli Onesti and the Difficult Decision
7 Nov 2021
Starting at ZAR 600 000
 
Diane Victor; Trawler
25 Oct 2021
Starting at ZAR 40 000
 
Diane Victor; Hide and Seek
25 Oct 2021
Sold for ZAR 5 277
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Diane Victor; Slip Sliding Away
25 Oct 2021
Sold for ZAR 9 380
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Diane Victor; Employing the Book Advantage
25 Oct 2021
Sold for ZAR 9 380
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Diane Victor; A Hyaena Skin of Doctors
25 Oct 2021
Sold for ZAR 9 967
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Diane Victor; Wasn't it a Long Way Down
25 Oct 2021
Starting at ZAR 7 000