Strauss & Co is pleased to announce details of its forthcoming multi-day live virtual auction of art, decorative arts, jewellery and fine wine, due to take place from Sunday, 8 November to Wednesday, 11 November 2020. This exciting bi-city initiative is titled NORTH/SOUTH and replaces the company’s traditional end-of-year city sales in Johannesburg and Cape Town with a consolidated virtual sale involving both offices simultaneously. While new in format and duration, NORTH/SOUTH is a showcase of everything Strauss & Co does best.
Strauss & Co flagship March auctions of modern and contemporary art open with Sterns from Boiskin Art Collection
Strauss & Co is privileged to offer works by leading South African modernists acquired by Cape Town collectors Stan and Li Boiskin at its flagship live-virtual auctions in Cape Town on Tuesday, 24 March 2026. Assembled over many decades by Stan and Li Boiskin, well-known cultural patrons active in community organisations and public life, the
Archived: From Pierneef to Makamo: a heritage of artistic pedigree in Strauss & Co 2019 Spring online-only auction
Strauss & Co’s October online-only auction, which is now open and runs until 8pm on Monday 19 October, offers a cornucopia of pleasures. The lot offerings encompass collectable art, jewellery and accessories, and fine wine. Highlights include Kanonkop’s CWG Paul Sauer, the ne plus ultra of South African wines, as well as luxurious ladies’ silk scarves and gentlemen’s silk ties by Hermès.
Archived: Innovating in lockdown Emerging Painting Invitational launches a special collaboration with Strauss & Co
Emerging Painting Invitational – the pan-African emerging painting prize, launched by the Emerging African Art Galleries Association (EAAGA) in 2019 in Harare, Zimbabwe – like all international art events, faced a dilemma in 2020. The objective of EPI is to bring international attention and professional support to the widest diversity of young painters across Africa as well as to spotlight different art communities across the continent through the unique exhibition/conference/prize/art fair model.
Uncovered Classics: Strauss & Co Explores The Wearing Of Stories
Strauss & Co presents Uncovered Classics, a jewellery sale that shifts the conversation from “vintage” to archive, artistry and the wearing of stories. The timed online auction from 6-26 March 2026 brings together pieces that span eras without feeling fixed in any one of them. The sale is divided into three stylistic sessions: Nostalgia, Nouveau
Archived: Letter from the Chairperson
Dear Clients and Friends, I hope that you and your families are in good health and secure in these troubling times. I would like to personally thank you for your continued support of Strauss & Co, and for joining us on our dynamic digital journey over the course of 2020.
Layered, Personal, Bold: The New Way To Wear Heritage, Presented By Strauss & Co’s Uncovered Classics Jewellery Auction
The fashion narrative of the upcoming Strauss & Co jewellery auction, Uncovered Classics, is less about looking back and more about styling forward. Divided into three sessions: Nostalgia, Nouveau and Timeless, the sale contains substantial gold suites and significant diamond brooches. It also offers a concentrated edit of wearable, trend-aligned pieces that speak directly to
Archived: Strauss & Co 2019 October results bode well for the Pierneef market
JH “Henk” Pierneef demonstrated his enduring appeal at Strauss & Co’s R55-million Spring sale, held in Cape Town on 7 October, achieving a total of R9.65 million from nine lots sold. The top lot, a monumental study of interlaced camelthorn trees in a landscape near Thabazimbi, sold for R2.73 million. The results marked a welcome return to form for Pierneef, whose prices had been diluted by a recent fire sale by a distressed collector.
Generations of Collecting: An Important Collection of Cape Silver, Oriental Ceramics, Furniture and Art
Opened on 2 March 2026 as a Live-Virtual sale, Generations of Collecting: An Important Collection of Cape Silver, Oriental Ceramics, Furniture and Art brings to market an important private collection that traces the material culture of the Cape across the 18th and 19th centuries. Split into two sessions spanning Cape silver, Oriental ceramics, fine furniture
Archived: The History of Harcroft House
The history of Harcroft is bound up in an extraordinary love story which began in 1936, when British born Charles Louis Rycroft flouted the conventions of the time to marry a divorcee, Muriel Susan Elizabeth Parsons. Harcroft Estate, situated on the banks of the Ayer Tawar river in Perak, Malaysia, was a rubber plantation comprising the estate and the factory which Charles’s father, George Henry Rycroft, and his business partner, John Hartley, had purchased in 1919. Merging their two surnames, it was registered as Harcroft Rubber Estates Ltd.
