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.



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William Kentridge

South African 1955- 


After studying Political Science at Wits in the late 1970s William Kentridge studied the art of mime in Paris in the early 1980s. He now continually combines these interests in his art. His phenomenal drawing skills were sharpened while studying at the Johannesburg Art Foundation and, in the numerous stop-frame video animations of the 1990s and the large-scale installations of the early twenty-first century, he dramatically renders the effects of colonialism on the oppressed. Regularly mounting major exhibitions and dramatic productions, locally and internationally, he is the recipient of numerous local and international awards and is the true embodiment of Contemporary African Art.

Image courtesy Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg.


813 lots offered      84.26% sold      ZAR 185 318 278
 

Including Premium and VAT Results include Buyer's Premium and VAT
William Kentridge; Colour Chart I
12 Feb 2024
Sold for ZAR 211 050
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
William Kentridge; Colour Chart II
12 Feb 2024
Sold for ZAR 211 050
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
William Kentridge; Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, March 2003, Exhibition Poster
12 Feb 2024
Sold for ZAR 23 450
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
William Kentridge; Act III Scene II
12 Feb 2024
Sold for ZAR 37 520
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
William Kentridge; Man With Megaphone
27 Nov 2023
Sold for ZAR 44 555
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
William Kentridge; The Lovers
27 Nov 2023
Starting at ZAR 40 000
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William Kentridge; Runner, Domestic Scenes series
27 Nov 2023
Sold for ZAR 29 313
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
William Kentridge; Cat
7 Nov 2023
Sold for ZAR 4 003 125
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
William Kentridge; Untitled (Drawing from The Deluge Series)
7 Nov 2023
Starting at ZAR 1 800 000
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William Kentridge; Untitled (Seated Woman)
7 Nov 2023
Sold for ZAR 1 258 125
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William Kentridge; Shadow Figure I
7 Nov 2023
Starting at ZAR 1 800 000
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William Kentridge; Shadow Figure II
7 Nov 2023
Starting at ZAR 1 800 000
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