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
Strauss & Co is delighted to announce the fourth installment of the annual August Art Month at Welgemeend, a month-long exhibition of South African art at one of Cape Town’s most renowned manor homes. The theme for this year’s winter exhibition is “Abstraction – South African art from the 50’s to the 70’s” and will showcase work from two important private collections, the Frank and Lizelle Kilbourn Collection and Pieter Colyn Collection.
CAPE TOWN – For generations of South African artists and collectors, Paris has exerted a magnetic influence, defining artistic aspiration and shaping connoisseurship. Strauss & Co’s Cape Town Auction Week (31 March – 2 April 2025) showcases the extent of this influence in the catalogues for its five specialist sales of collectable modern and contemporary
Welgemeend and Boerneef Art Collection in collaboration with Kilbourn and Colyn Families – August Art Month Programme
CAPE TOWN — History. Heritage. Heirloom. The three H’s define the upcoming Strauss & Co Jewellery Timed Online Auction; The Classics Edition: History. Heritage. Heirloom, opening 20th March 2025 at 8 am and closing on 31st March 31, 2025 at 2pm. The collection weaves these themes throughout many classic pieces, celebrating craftsmanship, design and skilled
Art month at Welgemeend / August 2017
Thursday, 3 August 2017 AT 6.00pm R60 per person: proceeds will benefit Welgemeend and the Boerneef Art Collection Booking essential: Helena Le Roux 082 461 9753
CAPE TOWN — Strauss & Co is pleased to present ‘March Interiors’, a timed online sale showcasing an exceptional selection of antique furniture and silver. This curated sale — opening on 20th March 2025 and closing on 2nd April at 2 pm —highlights a wide range of rare and significant interior pieces filled with elegance
A portrait of a raffish shepherd by Maggie Laubser, a stylised homage to Hieronymus Bosch by Alexis Preller, two drawings of William Kentridge’s fictional alter ego and a night sky landscape by John Meyer, form part of Strauss & Co’s substantial offering at its forthcoming live sale in Cape Town, which will be held at the Vineyard Hotel on 16 October.
Pioneer modernists Laubser, Pierneef, Preller, Sekoto and Stern headline Strauss & Co’s Cape Town Auction Week
