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Strauss & Co Announces Nature-Inspired Art Auction to Coincide with Hermanus Fynarts Festival 2024

Posted on by Brooke Shafer

Cape Town – Strauss & Co is delighted to announce Art Rooted in Nature, a two-part auction that celebrates the profound connection between South African artists and the natural world. Coinciding with the vibrant Hermanus Fynarts Festival 2024 and running from 7 to 25 June, the auction offers collectors a compelling selection of artworks that emphasize themes of both human and non-human elements in nature.

Archived: Millions achieved for South African Art at Strauss & Co

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Strauss & Co’s auction in Johannesburg last night which achieved a total of almost R42 million, was characterised by a packed auction room and a busy bank of telephones. The top lot of the auction, Irma Stern’s Portrait of Freda Feldman with Basuto Hat, which sold on the telephone for over R5 million, was repatriated from Australia to be sold by Strauss & Co.

Two important drawings by William Kentridge, an artist revered globally, at Strauss & Co auction in Johannesburg

Posted on by Brooke Shafer

JOHANNESBURG – In March 2009, when Strauss & Co held its inaugural live auction of important South African art in Johannesburg, the catalogue included two works on paper by the acclaimed contemporary artist William Kentridge. Both works found eager buyers. In the ensuing 15 years, as Kentridge’s astonishingly diverse practice has gained ever wider international

Archived: Highly important Zanzibar portrait by Irma Stern of praying man poised to go under the hammer at Strauss & Co

Posted on by Carla Spies

• Praying Arab expected to fetch R16 – 18 million/ $839 375 – 944 300.
• Composition dates from pivotal Zanzibar period and features original frame.
• Stern market remains incredibly buoyant after 2023 African record.
• Strauss & Co is offering Irma Stern’s, Praying Arab (1945) and Red Dahlias (1955).

Archived: Leading/Inspirational businesswomen, Khetiwe McClain and Jo-Ann Strauss, join Strauss & Co

Posted on by Carla Spies

Strauss & Co announces the appointment of Khetiwe McClain and Jo-Ann Strauss to the company’s board of directors. Their appointment is effective immediately. Khetiwe McClain, a mining entrepreneur with an international background in art, joins the company as Client Advisory Executive. Jo-Ann Strauss, a media entrepreneur and international speaker, will serve as a Non-Executive Director.

The irrepressible Irma Stern, a star of multiple editions of the Venice Biennale, leads Strauss & Co’s Johannesburg Evening Sale

Posted on by Brooke Shafer

JOHANNESBURG – Irma Stern, the Cape painter who decisively modernised South African painting a century ago, forms an important part of Strauss & Co’s premier Evening Sale, which take place at 7pm on Tuesday, 28 May 2024 in Johannesburg. The 85-lot catalogue of modern and contemporary art is anchored by Stern’s important and paradisiacal 1930 portrait of a seated young woman, Cape Girl with Fruit (estimate on request).

Archived: Strauss & Co’s August online sale covers half a century of South African ceramic art

Posted on by Carla Spies

Strauss & Co’s August online auction comprising 250 lots in three sessions with a dedicated South African ceramics focus, is now open for bidding. The timed online auction opens with the  latest iteration of Strauss & Co’s Art Club and  Impression/Expression sessions. CERAMICS The dedicated ceramic session opens with two special Linn Ware bowls, (c.1930s

Archived: Rare collections of the World’s leading wines to be sold as single bottles

Posted on by Carla Spies

Strauss & Co Fine Wine Auctions, part of Africa’s Leading Auction House, proudly offers significant collections of the world’s greatest wines, now available as single bottles. The 579 bottles, half bottles and large formats from Penfolds Grange, Domaine de La Romanée Conti, Château Mouton Rothchild and Château d’Yquem stretch back to 1892!