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Works by Chagall and Picasso headed for Toyota Stellenbosch Woordfees, courtesy of Strauss & Co

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CAPE TOWN – Strauss & Co is delighted to reaffirm its commitment to Toyota Stellenbosch Woordfees (28 September – 6 October 2024) with a knockout exhibition of vividly coloured artworks by iconic modernists Marc Chagall and Pablo Picasso in the Oude Leeskamer, Stellenbosch. The exhibition forms the centrepiece of Strauss & Co’s diverse contributions to this vibrant arts festival in the Cape winelands, notably a benefit auction, music recital, fashion show and public talks.

Archived: Strauss & Co proudly supports the Friends of the South African Pavilion at Biennale Arte Venice 2017.

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Strauss & Co, South Africa’s leading auction house by turnover and sell-through rate, is proud to announce its support of the Friends of the South African Pavilion, a network of contributing patrons at this year’s 57th Biennale Arte in Venice, which opens to the public on Saturday, 13 May 2017. Founded 1895, the Biennale Arte is the world’s most prestigious contemporary art event and an important platform to leverage national aspiration on a global stage.

Auction Record for Tretchikoff

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CAPE TOWN – The much-loved Russian-born Cape Town painter Vladimir Tretchikoff’s Balinese Girl, an absorbing portrait of a young Indonesian woman in traditional dress, thought to be painted circa 1954-56, sold to a telephone buyer at Strauss & Co’s evening sale of modern and contemporary art for R5 718 750 / $324 842, a new SA record. Earlier

A peak-period Tretchikoff painting, suffused with beauty and glamour, leads Strauss & Co’s September Auction Week

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CAPE TOWN – A pinnacle work by Vladimir Tretchikoff, the much-loved Russian-born Cape Town painter whose vivid portraiture and canny marketing strategies prefigured Pop art, leads Strauss & Co’s September Auction Week (16 – 18 September 2024). Painted circa 1954-56, Balinese Girl (estimate R5 – 7 million/ $278 520 – $390 000) derives from Tretchikoff’s classic period, when he originated such iconic works as Chinese Girl (1952) and Lady from Orient(1955). 

September ART 

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Strauss & Co is pleased to announce September ART, its monthly Timed Online Auction as a precursor to September Auction Week — which will see a series five of curated sales including modern and contemporary art, photography, furniture, design and ceramics (16 – 18 September 2024).  

From ceramics to tapestry, painting to photography, furniture to glass, Strauss & Co announces its rich spring auction programme

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CAPE TOWN – After a long and uncharacteristically wet winter, Strauss & Co is pleased to usher in the warming spring months with September Auction Week, a series of five curated sales of modern and contemporary art, photography, furniture, design and ceramics (16 – 18 September 2024). The exciting programme includes a standalone live-virtual auction of early works by renowned artist-potter Hylton Nel, as well as Strauss & Co’s first-ever stand-alone photography.