Ugandan Artist Katesi Jacqueline Kalange is the 2026 Cassirer Welz Award Winner 

We are pleased to announce that Katesi Jacqueline Kalange is the 2026 winner of the Cassirer Welz Award. She has been awarded a 3-month artist’s residency at Bag Factory Artists’ Studios, which will culminate in a solo exhibition.  Strauss & Co, in association with Bag Factory Artists’ Studios, announced the winner of the prestigious Cassirer

Archived: Strauss & Co’s popular online-only auction launches company’s 2021 sales programme

Strauss & Co’s popular online-only auction launches company’s 2021 sales programme

Strauss & Co is pleased to announce details of its first sale of 2021, due to be held online from 15 to 22 February. Highlights from the art department include a remarkable 1949 drawing of Walter Battiss meeting Pablo Picasso, a delightful 2002 balloon sculpture by Jeff Koons and an early figure drawing by Nelson Makamo.

Archived: Four collections, each a statement in connoisseurship, lead Strauss & Co’s May sale

Four collections, each a statement in connoisseurship, lead Strauss & Co’s May sale

The catalogue for Strauss & Co’s forthcoming three-day live sale of fine wine and modern, post-war and contemporary art bears testimony to the role of passion, research, discernment and time in collecting. The sale commences on Sunday, 16 May with a session devoted to a single-owner collection of fine wines from Bordeaux, Burgundy, Alsace and Champagne. Over the following two days Strauss & Co will be offering paintings acquired by the late entrepreneur Toy Mostert, three sculptures from the Afrox Corporate Art Collection and two pieces formerly owned by art historian Esmé Berman.