A message from Chairperson, Frank Kilbourn
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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: Trove of superb Irma Stern paintings tops Strauss & Co’s 2019 Live Virtual May sale
Strauss & Co is very pleased to announce details of its much-anticipated autumn sale, due to be held on Sunday 10 and Monday 11 May. This important two-day sale includes paintings by several important twentieth-century moderns, including Irma Stern, items from three notable single-owner collections of decorative arts and a Bordeaux-themed sale of rare wines from South Africa and France.
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: Travelling artists: Battiss, Pierneef, Preller and Stern lead Strauss & Co’s 2019 Live Virtual May sale
Travel was central to the life and work of Walter Battiss, JH Pierneef, Alexis Preller and Irma Stern, four important twentieth-century moderns whose work forms the core of Strauss & Co’s superb art offering to be auctioned online on Monday, 11 May. The change in format of Strauss & Co’s autumn sale of important South African moderns was necessitated by the current Covid-19 outbreak.
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: Refinement and tradition central to Strauss & Co’s 2019 Live Virtual decorative arts auction
Strauss & Co is proud to announce the auction of three notable single-owner collections in its online sale of 19th Century, Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art, Decorative Arts, Jewellery and Wine, due to be held on Monday, 11 May. The revised virtual format was necessitated by the current Covid-19 outbreak.
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
Archived: Strauss & Co offers two exceptional single-owner collections of decorative arts
Strauss & Co’s forthcoming March sale in Cape Town includes a fine selection of Chinese and Japanese ceramics and works art, English silverware and Cape furniture from two distinguished single-owner collections. The impeccable consignments from the Dr J.R. and Mary Strong Collection and Dr Johan Bolt Collection showcase artisanal traditions from various cultural epochs. Collectively, they evidence the role of passion and connoisseurship in building a collection.
Strauss & Co November Flagship Sales offer landmark museum-exhibited South African modern art including Pemba, Laubser and Preller
A major event in the Johannesburg auction calendar, Strauss & Co’s November Flagship Sales (17–19 November 2025) will showcase the finest South African modern and contemporary art across four auctions. The live-virtual Evening Sale (Tuesday, 18 November, 7pm) features landmark works from museum retrospectives of Maggie Laubser, George Pemba and Alexis Preller. Maggie Laubser’s double-sided
