Strauss & Co presents “The Luxury Edit: Designer Handbags and Accessories“, the first of its kind with the company. The timed online auction (22 September – 6th October 2025) brings together luxury goods from renowned international design houses; Bottega Veneta, Chanel, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Yves Saint Laurent, alongside the South African design house, Lorenzi, the
Strauss & Co is proud to be among the finalists for the 21st Business and Arts South Africa (BASA) Awards, partnered by Hollard.
Strauss & Co is pleased to present a special focused sale “Embodied: A Selection of Works Exploring the Figure” (17th – 30th September 2025). The sale coincides with “September ART”, a monthly timed online sale featuring works that highlight the breadth of South African art through its curated sessions: Art Club, Paintings, Works on Paper,
The current Strauss & Co online auction includes an impressive selection of works from the Natal School as well as an outstanding representation of Scandinavian jewellery, silver and furniture.
The astonishing shift, over the last decade and a half, in the reputation and value of one of South Africa’s most iconic and recognisable artists, Vladimir Tretchikoff, is nothing short of remarkable. Once dismissively relegated by critics as ‘The King of Kitsch’, he is now recognised as a trailblazer who produced works that were at
Strauss & Co is thrilled to be the recipient of this year’s Chairman’s Premier Award at the 21st BASA Awards which were held today at the Victoria Yards complex in Lorentzville, Johannesburg. The prestigious award comes in the year of the company’s 10th anniversary.
Spanning the elegance of Art Deco, the rigour of Bauhaus, and the warmth of Scandinavian minimalism, Mid-Century Modern Furniture & Design celebrates the timeless innovation of 20th-century design. Presented as a timed online auction from 4 September to 1 October 2025, this sale brings together over a hundred lots—furniture, lighting, silverware, ceramics, rugs, and glass—each echoing the
A magisterial floral still life by Irma Stern, South Africa’s foremost painter, is the highlight of Strauss & Co’s bountiful crop of offerings at its forthcoming spring sale in Cape Town on 15 October. Painted in 1947, Dahlias (estimate R8 – 12 million) is a peak-period Stern depicting a favoured flower and additionally claims an impeccable provenance.
The September Strauss & Co fine wine auction features 6 sessions from Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne, the Rhône Valley, Iberia and additional finds from around the world. Highlights on the Bordeaux theme include a rare Dominus Estate 1996 from the Napa Valley and Penfolds Bin 707 Cabernet Sauvignon 1998 from Australia, along with various icon Bordeaux.
The landscape genre is a key part of the story of South African art and remains a highly sought-after collectable at auction. More than half of the twelve most valuable artists sold at auction by Strauss & Co since 2009 worked with landscape, including Walter Battiss, Maggie Laubser, Hugo Naudé and Cecil Skotnes, but none were as faithful to this country’s geographical abundance as JH Pierneef.
