Strauss & Co’s forthcoming Live Virtual Auction, taking place on Sunday 15 May at 11am, features a lovely spread of affordable quality and collectable rarity from the cellars of two fabled private collectors. Legends in their respective industries, Peter Veldsman is one of South Africa’s most respected food writers and a beloved restaurateur. Fortified wines guru, Dirkie
Strauss & Co’s August online-only auction offers buyers a selection of 19th Century, Modern and Contemporary Art.
South Africa’s leading auction house Strauss & Co is pleased to announce highlights of its August 2022 online-only decorative arts sale.
JOHANNESBURG – A remarkable late landscape by J.H. Pierneef, Approaching Storm, Sabi Sands, led Strauss & Co’s live-virtual Evening Sale of Modern and Contemporary Art in Johannesburg on 21 July 2026, confirming sustained collector demand for exceptional examples of South African modernism while reinforcing the company’s strong performance during the first half of the year.
This March, Strauss & Co draws attention to the importance of photography as a collectable with a sale of works by internationally acclaimed proponents of the medium.
Strauss & Co Senior Art Specialist and Head Curator Wilhelm van Rensburg discusses the beautiful oil painting by Irma Stern titled ‘Still Life with Lilies’ from the May 2021 Virtual Live Auction.
Strauss & Co Senior Art Specialist Dr Alastair Meredith discusses the Mapogga figures featured in two key works by South African artist Alexis Preller from the May 2021 Virtual Live Auction.
Strauss & Co is pleased to announce advance details of its live virtual sale in Johannesburg on 15–17 May 2022, which will include an evening session entirely devoted to Surrealism and its influence on South African art and artists.
Strauss & Co presents works from our exhibition Dreaming Impossible Things on view at the Alliance Française du Cap as part of the 2026 Heat Winter Arts Festival in Cape Town. This year’s theme, Ctrl + Z, calls us to reflect on the notion of undoing. It reminds us that while we can instantly undo
Kim Kandan, gallery director of the KZNSA Gallery in Durban is the second guest curator in the ongoing series of collaborations between Strauss & Co and key players in the South African art market.
