· April online sales lead with special section relating to landmark London African Art exhibition · April ‘Art Club’ brings unique introduction to collecting by Strauss & Co specialists · Affordable collecting highlights the 500-plus lots of modern and contemporary art JOHANNESBURG: Strauss & Co powers ahead this month with its monthly series of considered
With museums and galleries closed during Covid-19 health lockdown, Strauss & Co’s online sale of Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art, Decorative Arts and Wine (25 May – 1 June) offers an inspiring journey through two centuries of art from South Africa, and beyond. Like a museum with many annexes, the 500-lot sale covers a range of artistic genres and periods, and features a handsome showcase of decorative arts and wines inspired by Chenin and Pinotage.
Wines produced from Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, especially in the hallowed Burgundy region, are some of the most desirable in the world. Our Burgundy and Champagne theme offers a trove of the very best wines.
A packed auction room at the start Strauss & Co’s flagship Cape Town Auction Week heralded a mood of sustained enthusiasm for the superb consignments offered in the company’s Woodstock salesroom. Held across two days, on 24 and 25 March 2026, the sales saw excellent results for paintings by Irma Stern, Gerard Sekoto, and J.H.
Scenes of open ranges and domestic beauty by a diverse list of artists substantially contributed to Strauss & Co’s positive June online sale, which earned R5.6 million from the 72% lots sold. JH Pierneef, a master of spaciousness and rural quiet, was the star performer, with three works by him placing in the top ten lots sold.
Strauss & Co is pleased to announce a single-artist auction devoted to one of South Africa’s most renowned and iconic painters, JH Pierneef.
Strauss & Co, Africa’s leading auction house, is pleased to announce details of its flagship Cape Town live-virtual auctions to be held on 24 and 25 March 2026 at the company’s Woodstock salesroom. The programme comprises four auctions, beginning with collectable modern and contemporary art on the first day, followed on the next day by
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Exhibition walkabout with Strauss & Co Head Curator and Senior Art Specialist, Wilhelm van Rensburg.
Strauss & Co is privileged to offer works by leading South African modernists acquired by Cape Town collectors Stan and Li Boiskin at its flagship live-virtual auctions in Cape Town on Tuesday, 24 March 2026. Assembled over many decades by Stan and Li Boiskin, well-known cultural patrons active in community organisations and public life, the
