A sumptuous portrait by Alexis Preller and a superb collection of Linn Ware are among the standout lots in Strauss & Co’s forthcoming virtual live sale on Tuesday, 10 August 2021.
Strauss & Co is pleased to announce advance details of a special artist focus on Erik Laubscher and Claude Bouscharain, two quintessential Cape painters, in its forthcoming live virtual auction, due to take place on 11-12 October 2021.
Strauss & Co, Africa’s leading art auction house, is very pleased to announce details of Cape Town Auction Week, a four-day series of auctions featuring art, design, jewellery and wine that runs from 18 to 21 September 2022.
Two extraordinary paintings by Gerard Sekoto and Penny Siopis, celebrated artists admired for their creative engagement with social life in South Africa, lead an impressive consignment of high-value paintings in Strauss & Co’s live-virtual Evening Sale: Modern and Contemporary Art. Painted fifty years apart, at either end of the defining historical event of high apartheid
Luxury and collectability is a hallmark of each of the 928 lots of visual art, decorative arts, furniture, jewellery and fine wine featured in Strauss & Co’s forthcoming marquee sale, NORTH/SOUTH (8-11 November 2020). Spread over four days and composed of eight curated sessions, this dynamic hybrid auction features a number of rare and high-value lots of particular interest to collectors.
New world record set for the artist
Robust bidding for top-notch works by Lynn Chadwick, JH Pierneef, Alexis Preller and Irma Stern offered in the final session of Strauss & Co’s three-day live sale in Johannesburg culminated in strong individual sale prices as well as new world records for painter Keith Alexander and sculptor Sydney Kumalo.
JH Pierneef proved his status as the most beloved of the South African landscape artists when all 69 lots in Strauss & Co’s first-of-its-kind single-artist auction dedicated to this modernist icon found buyers.
More than R3.5-million was raised for the Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation when top-notch artworks, great wines and once-in-a-lifetime experiences went on auction through auctioneers Strauss & Co on 22 September 2021.
Caxton Reporter in North Coast Rising Sun He’s been called the ‘King of Kitsch’ and the art world’s cognoscenti scorned his artworks as ‘popular’ and commercial’. Few South African artists have been more divisive than Vladimir Tretchikoff, or ‘Tretchi’ as he’s affectionately known by his fans and collectors. The public loved him, the art establishment loved to
