Strauss & Co’s decorative arts department is pleased to announce details of its current online-only sale of Asian art, due to end on 25 April 2022.
Archived: Robust demand for historical Asian art informs Strauss & Co’s April offering
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Archived: Landmark auction of works by Irma Stern, South Africa’s top female artist
On the centenary of Irma Stern’s debut solo exhibition in South Africa and the half-centenary of the opening of the Irma Stern Museum in Cape Town, Strauss & Co is proud to be hosting a single-artist auction entirely devoted to this illustrious artist.
Archived: Paying homage to Die Kunskamer, the gallery that changed the course of SA art
Strauss & Co is pleased to announce its participation in the 2022 instalment of August Art Month.
Archived: Impression/Expression theme leads the Strauss & Co October online offering
Strauss & Co October Online-Only Auction
Welgemeend Art Month returns with a group exhibition exploring the journey from artistic idea to finished work
CAPE TOWN – The exhibition From Concept to Object / Wanneer Idees GestalteKry provides the organising theme for the 2026 edition of Welgemeend Art Month (1–31 August 2026), Cape Town’s much-loved winter arts festival, now in its thirteenth year. Drawing on works from the Kilbourn Collection and other private collections, the group exhibition explores how artists transform ideas into tangible form. It also includes
Archived: Two rare and important oils by pioneer painter Thomas Bowler enter the market
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).
Archived: Larry Scully’s Black Madonna at the Regina Mundi Cathedral, Soweto
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.
Archived: African Lion: John Muafangejo
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.
Archived: William Kentridge: Untitled, Drawing from Il Ritorno d’Ulisse
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.
Archived: A bottle of fine wine sells for almost a million Rands at a specialist Strauss and Co. wine and art 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
