Strauss & Co, South Africa’s leading auction house, has experienced brisk trade in the period January to June, generating combined sales of R120 million (R120 588 713). The company’s three live sales, which this year included a new specialist auction exclusively focusing on contemporary art, generated the lion’s share of the turnover, netting R111 million (R111 053 588). Four online sales brought in R9.5 million (R9 530 200).
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Linn Ware: Celebrating the Ceramics of Olifantsfontein
Strauss & Co is honoured to present ‘Linn Ware: Celebrating the Ceramics of Olifantsfontein’, a timed online sale running from 2 May to 13 May 2025.
Archived: Strauss & Co Showcases Online Auction and Stern Still Lifes at RMB Turbine Art Fair
Strauss & Co is adding to its considerable presence at the upcoming RMB Turbine Art Fair (TAF) with an online auction that provides emerging art collectors with an affordable, accessible platform.
May ART with Selected Works from the Chris Tugwell and Matthys Swanepoel Collections
Strauss & Co is pleased to announce May ART, a six-session timed online auction taking place from 2 to 12 May 2025, anchored by two private collections: Selected Works from the Chris Tugwell Collection and The Collection of Matthys Swanepoel. This curated sale offers a rare opportunity to experience South African art through the discerning
Archived: Art Month at Welgemeend highlights achievements of women artists
Collectors Frank and Lizelle Kilbourn have over the past three decades amassed a remarkable treasure trove of works by South African women artists, a selection of which will be on view at Welgemeend, a historic manor house in central Cape Town for the duration of August 2018.
A Celebration of Diversity in Fine Cape Wine: Three New Icon South African Producers
The April online auction brings together three of South Africa’s most distinguished and sought-after producers—Le Riche, David & Nadia and Restless River—each renowned for their dedication to terroir, craftsmanship, and producing refined, long-aging and exciting wines. Le Riche Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve is a South African benchmark, produced by Christo le Riche who took over from
Archived: Four masterclasses on art and collecting during Art Month at Welgemeend
Art Month at Welgemeend is an important event on Cape Town’s winter arts calendar that every year features a harvest of artistic talent drawn from collectors Frank and Lizelle Kilbourn’s personal collection. This year’s exhibition, Shifting Boundaries: A Selection of Works showcasing South African Women Artists of the Past 100 Years, highlights how successive generations of women artists have been at the vanguard of South African art.
April ART: Expressions of Labour and Form
JOHANNESBURG – Strauss & Co is pleased to present April ART, a Timed Online Auction running from 11 to 22 April 2025, with bidding open throughout the Easter weekend. The sale highlights a broad spectrum of artistic expression, including portraiture, landscape, still life, and sculpture, while also exploring the theme of work across various industries.
Archived: Face value: Striking portraits on offer Strauss & Co 2019 Joburg sale
An emphatically modern portrait by Irma Stern of an unknown young woman with stylishly waved hair and fashionable dress leads a group of remarkable portrait paintings on offer at Strauss & Co’s forthcoming live sale at the Wanderers Club on 5 June.
Gerard Sekoto’s 1947 self-portrait is the toast of the global north
In 2024, curator Adriano Pedrosa included Gerard Sekoto’s earliest known self-portrait in his exhibition Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere at the 60th Venice Biennale. Painted in October 1947, shortly after his arrival in London en route to Paris, where he remained in self-exile away from the Apartheid regime until his death in 1993. The work
