In partnership with Strauss & Co, Sanlam Private Wealth is proud to present an online auction of five ceramic artworks by globally acclaimed master ceramicist Andile Dyalvane.
Strauss & Co is pleased to announce details of its final sale of 2021, an online-only auction of collectables gathered by experts from the company’s decorative arts, wine and fine art departments.
Strauss & Co is delighted to announce the start of its 2022 sales programme with a multi-part series of online-only sales featuring superb consignments from its decorative arts, wine and fine art departments.
The late-modernist artist Robert Hodgins takes centre stage at Strauss & Co’s Cape Town Auction Week, a four-day programme of auctions from 18 to 21 September.
In 2024, curator Adriano Pedrosa included Gerard Sekoto’s earliest known self-portrait in his exhibition Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere at the 60th Venice Biennale. Painted in October 1947, shortly after his arrival in London en route to Paris, where he remained in self-exile away from the Apartheid regime until his death in 1993. The work
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.
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.
The historical town of Stellenbosch, which features some of the finest examples of Cape Dutch architecture, boasts a winemaking tradition which stretches back to the end of the 17th-century.
The excellent results achieved by Strauss & Co from the virtual live sale of the Professor Leo Strydom and the David Hall collections, once again demonstrated the company’s mastery in handling the sale of single-owner collections.
