On 702, The Azania Mosaka Show
Archived: The Series on Art Education – The Influence of African Art on Modernism
Archived: The Juanita Bird Collection of Linn Ware and 20th Century Ceramics
Strauss & Co is honoured to present a single-owner collection of 20th century ceramics from the Johannesburg collector Juanita Bird.
Archived: Strauss & Co – Reflections 2021
Thank you to all our clients and followers! The Johannesburg Strauss & Co. office gets together to reflect on the highlights of 2021 and to thank all our clients for a wonderful year.
Archived: Strauss & Co’s auction of Decorative Arts and Jewellery includes important Cape silver pieces from the Louis and Mavis Shill Collection
Strauss & Co’s Decorative Arts department is delighted to announce its exciting spring programme of four live auctions for Cape Town Auction Week (18 – 21 September 2022).
The highly anticipated Heat Winter Arts Festival program has been announced
Cape Town’s HEAT Winter Arts Festival returns this August with a bold, multi-genre programme focussed on Other Worldliness – this year’s theme. From August 6 to 16, audiences can look forward to over 13 exhibitions in walking distance at some of the city centre’s leading art galleries. Additionally, there is a stunning theatre and music
Archived: Strong online sale caps a year of innovation and change at Strauss & Co
Strauss & Co, South Africa’s preeminent auction house, successfully concluded its 2020 sales drive with an upbeat online-only auction of modern, post-war and contemporary art, decorative arts and fine wine. The auction netted a combined total of R7.4 million from 483 lots sold. The top-selling lot was an enigmatic quadriptych from 1995 by modernist painter Bettie Cilliers-Barnard, which sold for R234 500.
Archived: Auction Highlight: Robert Hodgins, The Consulting Room
Strauss & Co. Senior art specialist and head curator Wilhelm van Rensburg highlights three Robert Hodgins works featuring in our May Live Virtual-Live Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art Auction.
Archived: Rare botanical art and new contemporary paintings among highlights of Strauss & Co’s June sale
Strauss & Co’s forthcoming June sale of modern, post-war and contemporary art, decorative arts and wine includes an impressive line up of paintings from two important corporate collections, one offering a unique overview of Cape winemaking and its traditions, the other gathering an important grouping of South African women botanical artists.
Archived: Frank Kilbourn on 702. Radio: Art as an investment
Archived: Champagne pops expected for heroic works by Preller and Stern at Strauss & Co
Great pictures are the champagne of the auction market.
