Strauss & Co sets out its stall as the premium destination for fine art sales in South Africa as the company continues with an exciting curatorial programme and a roster of monthly online sales which offer buyers truly collectable art at accessible price points. Each set of sales in a packed programme for 2026 has
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.
Strauss & Co, Africa’s leading auction house, continues to demonstrate its specialist expertise in the stewardship and sale of important single-owner collections, achieving excellent results in February with an important collection and announcing a series of significant private collections to headline its March 2026 season in Cape Town. On Saturday, 21 February 2026, Strauss &
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%.
Strauss & Co is proud to announce the tenth annual Legacy Exhibition at its Houghton premises, celebrating the enduring influence of South African modernists on contemporary artists. Previous exhibitions have paired figures such as Dorothy Kay with Mary Sibande (2023), and Gerard Sekoto with Lena Hugo (2025). This year, the exhibition honours the remarkable work
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.
African Art in Venice Forum 2026 African Art Dialogues and Strauss & Co announce a special collaboration with the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art at the 2026 edition of the African Art in Venice Forum, hosted during the opening week of the 61st Venice Biennale. The opening breakfast, on Tuesday 5 May 2026, at Hotel Monaco &
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.
Strauss & Co is pleased to introduce Fibre & Form, a refreshed evolution of the Woven Legacies auction, celebrating Africa’s vibrant woven traditions alongside the sculptural beauty of personal objects. This sale highlights the continent’s rich cultural heritage while embracing a renewed appreciation for tactile arts. It also invites a reconsideration of Western notions of
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.
