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Archived: J. H. Pierneef: Close to Home traces a half-century of innovation and unbroken fascination with the South African landscape

Posted on by Carla Spies

Strauss & Co is delighted to announce details for J. H. Pierneef: Close to Home, the third edition of its annual single-artist auction devoted to J. H. Pierneef, South Africa’s preeminent landscape painter. The live-virtual auction features 57 artworks representative of the many facets of Pierneef’s prodigious career. The auction will be held on Tuesday, 25 July 2023 at Strauss & Co’s Johannesburg auction room.

Archived: Jewels Online: LAUNCH EDITION – Classic emeralds to contemporary designs

Posted on by Carla Spies

Leading African auction house Strauss & Co. is proud to announce the opening of their online standalone jewellery sale, curated by the company’s newly established jewellery department. The sale is open for view online until  2pm on 24th July and offers collectors and aficionados an eclectic selection that caters to a diverse range of tastes and budgets.

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: Strauss & Co’s upcoming timed online auction provides art collectors with a special focus on the Eastern Cape

Posted on by Carla Spies

Strauss & Co’s July timed online auction opens on Monday 2 July, and will have three sessions, offering buyers a curated selection of modern and contemporary art with a dedicated Eastern Cape focus. This themed auction will open with the latest iteration of Strauss & Co’s Art Club session as well as an Impression/Expression session in the sale.  This

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).