Leading auction house Strauss & Co is privileged to be offering the entire contents of Harcroft House – an imposing 64-roomed Arts and Crafts mansion in the heart of Constantia in Cape Town. The 558-lot auction will take place in situ on Monday 18 November and will be preceded by three days of public viewing, from Friday 15 to Sunday 17 November.
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Strauss & Co Achieves Exceptional Results for Rare Early William Kentridge Wildlife Drawings from Engen Collection
Johannesburg: Strauss & Co is proud to announce the outstanding success of a rare and historically significant body of early work by internationally acclaimed South African artist William Kentridge, presented during its November Johannesburg Auction Week. The suite of 15 wildlife drawings, commissioned in 1985 for Mobil’s (now Engen) Cape Town headquarters, represents a pivotal moment in Kentridge’s development as
Archived: Vigorous bidding for the contents of Harcroft House in Constantia
Strauss & Co ended its 2019 programme of live sales on a confident note when the contents of Harcroft House, a distinguished Cape manor home in Constantia, was sold. The highest earner among the 558 lots on offer was a Chinese early Republican period, four-panel scroll painting depicting birds in flowering trees, which sold for R432 440, more than four times the estimate.
November Auction Week | Johannesburg, 17-19 November 2025
Johannesburg: Strauss & Co’s November Auction Week offers a curated selection of South African modern and contemporary art from the early 1900s to the present across multiple auctions. Auction Week runs from 17 to 19 November 2025, with daily public viewing. The week begins with the sale of a rare suite of 15 early wildlife drawings by William Kentridge commissioned in 1985 for Mobil’s Cape Town headquarters
Archived: 2019 Cassirer Welz Award Winner
Bag Factory Artists’ Studios, in partnership with Strauss Education and Kalashnikovv Gallery is proud to announce Duduzile (DuduBloom) More as the winner of the prestigious Cassirer Welz Award. Now in its ninth year, the award honours two doyens of art auctioneering in South Africa: Reinhold Cassirer and Stephan Welz. We would also once again like to congratulate the other three finalists for this year’s Cassirer Welz Award: Boitumelo Motau, Khotso Motsoeneng and Thebe Phetogo. Duduzile was announced as the winner of the award on 25 November at Strauss & Co in Johannesburg.
Suite of Rare Early Wildlife Drawings by William Kentridge from the Engen Collection poised to go under the hammer at Strauss & Co
In 1985, approaching 30, William Kentridge was commissioned to produce a suite of wildlife drawings for energy company Mobil’s new Cape Town headquarters, designed by architect Louis Karol. The suite of 15 drawings he delivered, now part ofthe Engen Collection, reveal Kentridge’s remarkable skill as a draughtsman. By turns illustrative, humorous, melancholic, surreal and possibly even prophetic in the case of his composition featuring an overturned rhino, they also demonstrate his deft
Archived: Strauss & Co’s 2019, 2020 contemporary art sale is a bumper offering of pan-African talent
A new wave of internationally celebrated South African artists, among them Nicholas Hlobo, Athi-Patra Ruga and Simphiwe Ndzube, lead Strauss & Co’s much-anticipated Contemporary Art auction, due to be held in Cape Town on 15 February. Now in its third year, this benchmark annual sale coincides with the Investec Cape Town Art Fair and will feature 102 carefully vetted lots, among them a consignment of pan-African works from a South African collector.
Tanzanian modernists shine in the inaugural Art Auction East Africa
NAIROBI – A strong turnout of prospective buyers to the inaugural edition of Art Auction East Africa | Strauss & Co, a successful new collaboration between Nairobi-based Danda Jaroljmek’s Circle Art Agency and South African auction house Strauss & Co, produced robust bidding for rare and important art from East Africa and beyond. There was especially
Archived: Strauss & Co at the Stellenbosch Woordfees, 6-15 March 2020 & 9 A Sophisticated Cultural Presence
When Frank Kilbourn sits down with Gerhard Marx, festival artist of the Stellenbosch Woordfees 2020, for a pleasant public heart-to-heart, the audience will quickly get that the executive chairperson of Strauss & Co has a solid hand on and a passion for the convoluted, but exciting, territory of contemporary art.
The Starcke Collection of African Art to Go Under the Hammer at Strauss & Co
Strauss & Co is honoured to present The Starcke Collection of African Art, an extraordinary private collection assembled by the late Anna Starcke, journalist, socio-political analyst and passionate patron of African culture. This timed online auction will close from 2 pm on Wednesday, 19 November 2025 and forms part of Strauss & Co’s November Auction
