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.
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Rare works by celebrated Durban painter Andrew Verster to be offered in September sale
Strauss & Co is delighted to present Andrew Verster: Gorgeous and Free, a landmark timed-online auction devoted exclusively to the celebrated Durban painter, educator, critic and activist Andrew Verster (1937–2020). Running from 25 August to 18 September 2025, the sale marks the first time an auction house has dedicated an entire sale to Verster’s work. Comprising
Archived: Important works by visionary collectors on offer at Strauss & Co 2019 October sale
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.
Archived: From Pierneef to Kentridge: landscapes ground Strauss & Co 2019 October sale
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.
Strauss & Co Fine Wine Auctions Redefines the Market
The partnership between Africa’s leading art and collectables Auction House Strauss & Co, retailer WineCellar and Higgo Jacobs has given insight into South Africa’s wine history and boosted the fine wine market. The Strauss & Co auction platform has allowed collectors and consumers to buy and sell old wines that have been vetted by a specialist team. Strauss & Co has offered wines
Archived: The Late Peter and Regina Strack Collection
The Late Peter and Regina Strack Collection
15 Years of the Cassirer Welz Award and announcement of the 2025 Award Winner
In 2011, Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer founded this prestigious award, inspired by her husband Reinhold Cassirer’s deep love for the arts. The recognition has evolved into one of South Africa’s most respected platforms for celebrating emerging artistic talent both locally and from the Sub-Saharan Region. When Stephan Welz (Founder member and Managing Director of Strauss &
Archived: Important Namibian paintings from The Late Peter and Regina Strack Collection poised to go under the hammer in South Africa
Strauss & Co, South Africa’s leading auction house, is honoured to present 20 works in various media from the Namibia-based collection of the Late Peter and Regina Strack. The sale, which includes three rare Adolph Jentsch oils and a major Fritz Krampe oil, will be offered in a dedicated segment at the auction house’s forthcoming sale in Cape Town on 15 October.
August Online Auctions – Horizons: Selected South African Landscapes and Seascapes and August ART
In August, Strauss & Co presents two timed online auctions: ‘Horizons: Selected South African Landscapes and Seascapes’ (closing 19 August at 2 pm) and ‘August ART’ (closing 18 August at 2 pm). ‘Horizons: Selected South African Landscapes and Seascapes’ traces South Africa’s rich topography through works by painters who depict the land and seas in
Archived: Unstinting connoisseurship: Important collections form the bedrock of Strauss & Co 2019 Spring sale
A commanding selection of works from single-owner collections, including a museum-quality Irma Stern still life, Namibian landscapes by Adolph Jentsch and an important Japanese satsuma vase, are some of the highlights from Strauss & Co’s forthcoming Spring sale. The sale, which also includes a late-period landscape by JH Pierneef from 1945 and two striking portraits by Maggie Laubser from the 1920s, will be held in Cape Town on 15 October at the Vineyard Hotel in Cape Town.
