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Celebrating the 2024 Earthshot Prize through the exhibition – A Reinvented Vocabulary: The Recycled in Contemporary Art 

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Strauss & Co’s new exhibition in celebration of the 2024 Earthshot Prize in Cape Town  “A Reinvented Vocabulary: The Recycled in Contemporary Art” showcases and celebrates South African artists who draw inspiration from and respond to nature within their practices, highlighting the country’s long tradition of climate activism and engagement with ecological concerns through art-making.

Superb portraits by Gratrix, Kentridge, Muholi, Pemba and Stern lead Strauss & Co’s November Flagship Sales

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Outstanding works by a multigenerational line-up of internationally celebrated South African modern and contemporary artists, including Igshaan Adams, David Goldblatt, William Kentridge, Esther Mahlangu, Zanele Muholi and Irma Stern, lead Strauss & Co’s four-part November sales, to be held over two days in Johannesburg (11-12 November 2024).

Archived: Homecoming: Strauss & Co offers lost treasures of SA art

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A key work by painter Alexis Preller, for decades presumed lost, is among the standout lots on Strauss & Co’s forthcoming Johannesburg summer auction. The sale, scheduled to take place at the Wanderers Club on 7 November, includes a number of important works repatriated to this country from international collections, notably by Preller, Walter Battiss, Cecil Skotnes and Edoardo Villa.

Bidders from 20 countries bring global enthusiasm to Strauss & Co’s International Sale

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CAPE TOWN – A stellar line-up of international artists, among them icons of the twentieth century like Francis Bacon, Louise Bourgeois, Marc Chagall, David Hockney and Pablo Picasso, attracted bidders from 20 countries to Strauss & Co’s annual International Sale. The two-part sale earned a combined revenue of R24.9 / $1.4 million, with 69 of the 97 lots in the Evening Sale selling (71% lot sell-through

Archived: Rarely seen Prellers form part of remarkable trove going under the hammer

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A career-spanning selection of paintings made by Alexis Preller between 1935 and 1975, some held in major collections and many unseen for decades, will go under the hammer at Strauss & Co’s forthcoming auction in Johannesburg. "What an array of ways of working!" enthused Professor Karel Nel, a respected artist and noted Preller expert, during a recent lecture on Preller. The lecture, which was hosted by Strauss & Co, offered an insight into the biographical context and outstanding aesthetic attributes of the ten Preller lots on offer.

Archived: Sale of Important Post-War Art Collection will Benefit Education

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Irma Stern’s striking oil portrait from 1956, Lot 226, Woman with Blue Headscarf (estimate R2 000 000 – R3 000 000), is one of a number of remarkable works from the collection of Liselotte and Walter Hardebeck going under the hammer at Strauss & Co’s upcoming 7 November sale in Johannesburg. Other notable works from this collection include Lot 223, Stern’s Watussi Chief’s Wife (with Head Dress), a charcoal drawing from 1946 (estimate R200 000 – 300 000), and a group of five little-seen works by Alexis Preller.