A highlight of a packed art month in June is the Hermanus FynArts Festival which takes place from 6-14 June. Strauss & Co and the Hermanus FynArts Festival have enjoyed a meaningful partnership since its inception more than a decade ago. From the first iteration in 2013, it has grown into a vibrant, multi-format festival showcasing
Strauss & Co is proud to announce the sale of two extremely rare oil paintings by the celebrated nineteenth-century landscape painter Thomas Bowler (1812–69).
Strauss & Co visits the Regina Mundi Church in Soweto to reunite Larry Scully’s ‘The Madonna and Child of Soweto’ paintings, in what is one of South Africa’s most symbolic and moving settings.
Comprising nearly 150 lots, this landmark once-off sale, will feature over 100 examples of Muafangejo’s masterful linocut prints, as well as a large consignment of 36 original (but cancelled) lino blocks. Orde Levinson, a noted art collector and scholar of Muafangejo, is the sole consignor to this sale, the first-ever devoted to a single artist by Strauss & Co.
Strauss & Co Senior Art Specialist and Head Curator Wilhelm van Rensburg discusses William Kentridge’s ‘Untitled, Drawing from Il Ritorno d’Ulisse’ from the May 2021 Virtual Live Auction.
By Edward Tsumele/ARTS Editor Can you imagine having in your collection a wine bottle that is older than you, and perhaps even older than your parents as part of your wine collection? Well, a luck buyer with obviously big pockets and enough passion for collecting one successfully bade for a one bottle and got it
Strauss & Co’s much-anticipated first live auction of 2022, due to be held over four consecutive days at Brickfield Canvas in Woodstock, Cape Town, includes an extensive and worldly presentation by the decorative arts department.
Strauss & Co is delighted to announce details of its Venice Biennale-themed online-only auction, which will be open for bidding from 14 to 25 April 2022.
Strauss & Co is proud to announce details of a single-artist sale of the highly important artist Irma Stern, to be held at Welgemeend Manor House in Cape Town on Wednesday, 8 June 2022.
Watercolour, a fluid medium with a substantial history in South Africa, is the focus of Strauss & Co’s May online-only auction.
