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
A majestic vertical landscape, a unique still life with red flowers, an arresting Cape marine landscape and an iconic bushveld scene with camel-thorn trees, all of them painted by J.H. Pierneef, form part of a trove of works by this celebrated modernist painter due to go under the hammer at Strauss & Co’s dynamic four-day virtual sale NORTH/SOUTH (8 – 11 November).
Art specialist Arisha Maharaj highlights the life and work of artist Keith Alexander. Four works feature on the upcoming May Live Virtual-Live Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art Auction.
A sealed case of the 2000 Lafite Rothschild Pauillac, the celebrated Bordeaux blend known for its elegance and purity nose and finesse, topped the opening session of Strauss & Co’s three-day live sale in Johannesburg when it sold for R147 940.
A sumptuous portrait by Alexis Preller and a superb collection of Linn Ware are among the standout lots in Strauss & Co’s forthcoming virtual live sale on Tuesday, 10 August 2021.
Strauss & Co is pleased to announce advance details of a special artist focus on Erik Laubscher and Claude Bouscharain, two quintessential Cape painters, in its forthcoming live virtual auction, due to take place on 11-12 October 2021.
Strauss & Co, Africa’s leading art auction house, is very pleased to announce details of Cape Town Auction Week, a four-day series of auctions featuring art, design, jewellery and wine that runs from 18 to 21 September 2022.
In 1985, Fée Halsted founded Ardmore Ceramics on the Ardmore Farm in KZN. It has grown to become the largest ceramic art studio in South Africa. The studio began with her first student, Bonnie Ntshalintshali, and has since expanded to include around 80 artists. The studio has also become internationally renowned, its quirky and colourful
Luxury and collectability is a hallmark of each of the 928 lots of visual art, decorative arts, furniture, jewellery and fine wine featured in Strauss & Co’s forthcoming marquee sale, NORTH/SOUTH (8-11 November 2020). Spread over four days and composed of eight curated sessions, this dynamic hybrid auction features a number of rare and high-value lots of particular interest to collectors.
New world record set for the artist
