Jewellery worth wearing and keeping: one week left to bid at Strauss & Co

• One week remains to bid in Strauss & Co’s Luxury Jewellery Edition: October Live and Online auctions, which conclude on 19 October 2026.  • Pearl quality is a particular focus, with Strauss & Co assessing lustre, nacre, surface, shape, colour, size, calibration and brand before accepting pieces for auction.  • Fancy-cut natural diamonds and a significant loose

Works by Geoffrey Mukasa, E S Tingatinga, K.F. Msangi, Salah Elmur and Samuel Wanjau lead Art Auction East Africa | Strauss & Co

NAIROBI – Following their successful collaboration in 2025, Strauss & Co, Africa’s leading auction house, and Danda Jaroljmek, Director of Art Auction East Africa, will present Art Auction East Africa | Strauss & Co, a 67-lot sale bringing together modern and contemporary art from East Africa and the wider continent. The live-virtual sale will be

Repatriated Stern painting and unique Baselitz linocut lead Strauss & Co’s fourth International Sale  

CAPE TOWN – The fourth edition of Strauss & Co’s annual live-virtual International Sale features 126 lots by artists from 30 countries spanning five continents. Taking place on Tuesday, 20 October 2026 at 7pm, the sale is anchored by important works by Georg Baselitz, Erik Laubscher, Shirin Neshat and Irma Stern. Stern’s 1935 portrait Two

Strauss & Co celebrates silver’s place in Cape history and the rituals of dining 

Cape Town – Strauss & Co is pleased to present two complementary silverware auctions this October: Celebrating Silver, a live virtual sale taking place on 20 October at 2pm, and Forms in Silver, a timed online sale running from 30 September to 21 October, with bidding closing from 2pm.  With approximately 260 lots collectively, the October

Raising a Glass to Excellence: Cape Winemakers Guild Auction Achieves R18 223 000

In a showcase of South African winemaking excellence, the 42nd Cape Winemakers Guild Auction achieved a record-breaking total of R18 223 000 this past weekend. A highlight on the calendars of wine enthusiasts locally and abroad, the Auction took place at Strauss & Co, Brickfield Canvas in Woodstock, Cape Town on Friday, 2 and Saturday,

Browse Strauss & Co October sales: Art, Books & Zines

• October sales offer highly collectable work from specialised corners of the art world • Eclectic selection defined by signs, symbols and texts Strauss & Co’s October sales are bound together by signs and symbols both painted and written, with a book collection, a collection of zines and journals and a collection of art focused on signs and symbols. The October

Mid-century modern design leads strong Strauss & Co auction results

CAPE TOWN – Modern design from the early 20th century to the present day drew strong bidding at Strauss & Co’s dedicated auctions of Mid-Century Modern furniture, jewellery, silver, ceramics and glass. Bringing together international design icons and a strong selection of South African makers, the auctions traced the evolution of modern design from the

Natural diamonds take centre stage at Strauss & Co

Cape Town: Strauss & Co’s forthcoming Luxury Jewellery Edition: October Live and Online Jewellery sales bring together natural diamonds, exceptional pearls and coloured gemstones, with both auctions opening on 25 September and concluding on 19 October 2026. This season, the auction house is highlighting jewellery of consequence: pieces selected as much for the quality and

South African jewellers turn still life into wearable art for Strauss & Co Woordfees exhibition and sale

STELLENBOSCH – Fifteen local art jewellers have taken one of art’s oldest genres off the wall and made it wearable in the form of brooches, necklaces, rings and other pieces. Art Jewellery in Conversation with Still Life, the second collaboration between Strauss & Co and Stellenbosch University’s Creative Jewellery and Metal Design Division, brings together

September ART: artists living and working across Africa and the diaspora

Strauss & Co’s September ART sale (28 August – 21 September 2026) presents an exciting range of accessible works by important Modern and Contemporary South African Artists alongside a compelling selection from artists living and working across Africa and the diaspora. The timed online auction forms part of an eventful month for the auction house,