Strauss & Co’s March ART online auction features a single artist session focusing exclusively on 19th-century British artist and landscape painter Thomas Bowler. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for collectors to acquire pieces directly from a collection curated by Dr. Frank Bradlow, Bowler’s biographer and a luminary in Africana collectables.
Strauss & Co’s Spring auction on 12 October at the Vineyard Hotel in Newlands promises a veritable cornucopia of rare and beautiful South African and international art from Irma Stern, JH Pierneef, Pieter Wenning, Jean Welz, Walter Battiss and Erik Laubscher to Robert Hodgins, William Kentridge and Penny Siopis. Younger artists include Georgina Gratrix, Athi-Patra Ruga, 2015 winner of the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Performance Art, and Mohau Modisakeng. An early hand-coloured print by Colin Richards is likely to appeal to discerning collectors. International works range from seventeenth-century portrait paintings to works by Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse and Diego Rivera.
Strauss & Co’s March Timed Online Wine auction is themed around the 2014 Vintage. One of the most important measures of great wine is that it should be age-worthy, that it should become more pleasurable and more interesting to drink with time in the bottle. Just how well do modern-era South African wines perform as they get older?
By Sean O’Toole. Rejection can be motivating force in an artist’s life. Take the definitive “no” that prefaced the start of much-loved painter Erik Laubscher’s prodigious career. In 1946, Tulbagh-born Laubscher, whose work is now highly sought after, knocked on a door at the Michaelis School of Fine Art and enquired from a secretary about his application to study at this prestigious Cape Town art school.
Strauss & Co, Africa’s leading auction house is pleased to announce its upcoming June timed online auction, featuring an impressive selection of artworks by well-known contemporary painters and early 20th century masters. The auction will open on Monday, 4th June, and presents an exciting opportunity for art collectors and enthusiasts to acquire excellent pieces for
The Strauss & Co Fine Wine department is proud to offer wines from Burgundy & Champagne in our current timed online auction, closing on Monday, 12th June. There are 106 lots going under the hammer featuring mature South African and French fine wines. The wines of Burgundy and single vineyard Champagnes are produced in small quantities and command
CAPE TOWN: Strauss & Co Fine Wine Auctions unveils six significant collections of the world’s greatest wines, that have also been minted as NFTs, including Penfolds Grange, Domaine de La Romanée Conti, Château Mouton Rothchild, Château d’Yquem, Screaming Eagle and Harlan Estate that will be sold online in July 2023 (Registration and Bidding now open
Strauss & Co is pleased to announce details for C.100 Sculptures, a timed-online auction of modern and contemporary South African sculpture in various media that closes on Wednesday, 5 July 2023. The auction features rare and important bronzes by artists Deborah Bell, Ezrom Legae and Haroon Gunn-Salie from The John and Elisabeth Bradley Collection.
Leading South African auction house, Strauss & Co, is delighted to present a selection of exquisite silverware in its upcoming June timed online auction.
In this centenary year of the founding of Surrealism, Strauss & Co will host Alexis Preller: Surreal Discovery, our first official London selling exhibition dedicated to the revered South African painter Alexis Preller. Much lauded in his home country, Preller was frequently and controversially associated with Surrealism, a revolutionary European art and literary movement founded
