JOHANNESBURG – Strauss & Co, Africa’s leading auction house, is pleased to announce a new strategic partnership with Art Auction East Africa, the Kenya-based platform devoted to creating awareness and establishing a secondary market for modern and contemporary art from East Africa. The first sale under the new banner Art Auction East Africa | Strauss
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.
Watch Now Head of Department, Dr Alastair Meredith discussing Vladimir Tretchikoff’s Lady from the Orient (1955)
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.
Important works representative of South Africa’s diverse and evolving artistic practices from the twentieth and twenty-first century will go under the hammer at Strauss & Co’s much-anticipated Cape Town sale on 5 March at The Vineyard Hotel. Among the standout lots being offered is an Egyptian-themed architectural drawing by William Kentridge from his 2005 production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute and a vivid still life with coffee utensils and ripening fruit by Erik Laubscher.
JOHANNESBURG – Johannesburg Auction Week by Strauss & Co is a central pillar of South Africa’s autumn art calendar, and this year encompasses 217 lots spread across two curated auctions that track more than a century of artistic innovation. The superb offering encompasses Frans Oerder’s portrait from the mid-1890s depicting four farmworkers, Leisure Hours (estimate
Important South African and International Art, Decorative Arts & Jewellery
Strauss & Co is pleased to present two jewellery sales this May — ‘Africa Gold Edition’, a Timed Online Sale running from 16 to 26 May 2025, celebrates the enduring beauty and cultural legacy of gold. ‘The Grand Edition’, a Live Sale on 26 May, will showcase exceptional jewels, including loose diamonds. Each sale offers a distinct focus — one on lustrous gold jewellery, the other on the precious mineral world — highlighting masterful craftsmanship and the natural splendour of Earth’s rarest materials. Formed deep within the planet and shaped by cosmic forces, gold and gemstones are timeless artefacts that trace our shared human story.
A bold and colourful Still Life with Coffee Pot and Fruit by Erik Laubscher set a new world record at Strauss & Co’s live sale in Cape Town last night, selling for R 2.273 million.
JOHANNESBURG – Strauss & Co, Africa’s leading auction house, is delighted to announce the inclusion of Vladimir Tretchikoff’s Lady from the Orient (estimate R5–7 million / $266,790–373,534), a global icon of twentieth-century painting, as a highlight of its flagship live sale on Tuesday, 27 May 2025, in Johannesburg.
