Strauss & Co is pleased to present 100 Years: Lalique, Silver and Art from the collection of Vera Dubin, a timed-online sale from 30 April to 25 May 2026. Shaped over a century, the collection of Dr. Vera Dubin offers a portrait of a life lived in close and continuous dialogue with the arts. Dubin’s
Strauss & Co established a new South African wine-auction record when a rare vertical tracking three decades of Kanonkop’s Paul Sauer, South Africa’s most iconic red wine, sold to an online bidder for R546 240 at the start of its three-day virtual auction. The exceptional offering of 19 large-format bottles of Kanonkop’s signature Bordeaux-style wine attracted considerable interest and eventually sold for double the pre-sale estimate.
Photography as a medium is faced, across all global markets, with a collecting challenge. The medium’s accessibility and reproducibility give rise to a perception among audiences that it is possible for anyone to do. This has been exacerbated by the rise of now ubiquitous smartphone cameras and an image culture rooted in social media. As
The emergence of a new class of younger collectors coupled with a strong showing by auction favourites J. H. Pierneef and Irma Stern enabled Strauss & Co to achieve solid results from its three-day live sale of South African fine wine and Modern, Post-War and Contemporary art. The sale was live-streamed from Strauss & Co’s offices in Johannesburg and Cape Town to an international audience and it attracted a large cohort of online and telephone bidders. The sale, which concluded on Tuesday evening with Session 5, earned a total of R66.9 million with a satisfying lot sell-through rate of close to 80%.
Heirloom Futures is a landmark contemporary fashion exhibition and benefit auction celebrating African design, craftsmanship, and cultural storytelling. Presented by Norval Foundation in partnership with Buchanan & Co., the exhibition positions fashion as both cultural artefact and collectible art form. “Initiatives like Heirloom Futures create a platform where designers, collectors and audiences can engage with
Strauss & Co is pleased to announce details for North/South, an exciting weeklong virtual sale of art, fine wine and decorative arts due to be held over five consecutive days from 8–12 November 2020.
Strauss & Co’s forthcoming auction of modern, post-war and contemporary art, decorative arts and fine wine (27 August – 7 September) coincides with a felicitous change in mood signalled by the easing of lockdown restrictions, imminent arrival of spring and launch of the 2020 edition of the RMB Turbine Art Fair. Art highlights from this online-only auction include works by auction evergreens Walter Battiss, Peter Clarke, William Kentridge, Nelson Makamo, J.H. Pierneef and Mmakgabo Helen Sebidi.
A landmark group exhibition situating Southern African art within a global Surrealist lineage Southern Guild is pleased to present The Poets Are Working, a major group exhibition curated by Anna-Michelle Roux, and presented in in collaboration with Strauss & Co and the Kilbourn Collection. Bringing together historical works by Frederick Hutchison Page (1908–1984), Alexis Preller
Time-honoured customs may have been upended by a global pandemic, but Strauss & Co is once again participating in the annual RMB Turbine Art Fair with a vigorous programme of contributions to this year’s virtual edition. These contributions include a talk by Strauss & Co chairperson Frank Kilbourn and two-person exhibition devoted to Gladys Mgudlandlu and Maggie Laubser.
· 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
