This past year, Strauss & Co handled a fair share of emerald jewellery. Each piece we consigned revealed the stone’s captivating beauty and depth of colour. Consider an emerald ring in your hand, one you must appraise and find a new home for. Before beginning that process, pause to contemplate the remarkable journey this stone
Strauss & Co is pleased to announce a weeklong public showcase of important artworks from its forthcoming Cape Town sale at Morkel House in Stellenbosch. This extraordinary display in one of South Africa’s oldest buildings runs from 4 to 8 March and will include museum-quality works by Irma Stern and Alexis Preller.
JOHANNESBURG – Strauss & Co is pleased to announce details for High Note, a live-virtual auction of modern and contemporary art to be held on Tuesday, 22 July 2025 at 7pm. The sale, part of a trio planned for July, features a small consignment of eight works from the personal collection of acclaimed South African soprano Mimi Coertse, alongside notable works by William Kentridge, J.H. Pierneef and Lady Skollie.
Strauss & Co’s much-anticipated March sale in Cape Town contains a bounty of eleven lots by Irma Stern, South Africa’s most valuable artist at auction. The Stern offering includes three exceptional portraits from the painter’s highly prized Zanzibar period (1939–45), one of which is unrecorded in literature about this prolific artist.
Drawing on the extensive Kilbourn Collection of modern and contemporary South African art, the exhibition In en Om Ons/ In and Around Us explores what it means to be an artist working after the advent of photography. The exhibition – a cornerstone of Welgemeend Art Month, now in its 12th year – will feature select paintings and photographs from the Kilbourn Collection that explore ideas of subjectivity, consciousness, home, play and work.
Strauss & Co’s forthcoming live auction in Cape Town includes three Zanzibar-period paintings by Irma Stern, a major work by Alexis Preller, museum-quality Cape furniture and a selection of fine Chinese and Japanese pieces. Originating from four highly important single-owner collections, the works will be offered to the public at the Vineyard Hotel on Monday, 18 March 2019.
Strauss & Co is pleased to announce details of its first-ever dedicated contemporary art sale, due to be held on 17 February 2018. The venue for the 71-lot sale is an impressive former warehouse overlooking the Duncan Docks, a harbour facility at the Port of Cape Town.
Strauss & Co is pleased to present ‘Eastern Cape Echoes: Selected Works from Tsitsikamma to Lusikisiki’, a sale that brings together a selection of artworks by artists who either originate from, live in, or draw inspiration from the Eastern Cape — a region where storytelling takes root in fertile ground. Included in the Timed Online
The hubbub of a working harbour provided the backdrop for Strauss & Co’s inaugural contemporary art sale, the first such auction in South Africa to focus exclusively on this burgeoning category of art.
Brücke Museum, Berlin, 13 July – 2 November 2025 The life and work of Irma Stern will be celebrated in Irma Stern: A Modern Artist between Berlin and Cape Town, a landmark exhibition at the Brücke Museum in Berlin (13 July – 2 November 2025). Click here for more information. Featuring over 40 paintings, watercolours
