In 2011, Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer founded this prestigious award, inspired by her husband Reinhold Cassirer’s deep love for the arts. The recognition has evolved into one of South Africa’s most respected platforms for celebrating emerging artistic talent both locally and from the Sub-Saharan Region. When Stephan Welz (Founder member and Managing Director of Strauss &
Strauss & Co is pleased to announce its participation in the seventh annual RMB Turbine Art Fair (RMB TAF), with a curated exhibition devoted to influential painters Louis Khehla Maqhubela and Douglas Portway. The exhibition, which is titled A Meeting of Minds, is the cornerstone of Strauss & Co’s contribution to the 2019 RMB TAF at its new location at 10 Fricker Road, Illovo.
In August, Strauss & Co presents two timed online auctions: ‘Horizons: Selected South African Landscapes and Seascapes’ (closing 19 August at 2 pm) and ‘August ART’ (closing 18 August at 2 pm). ‘Horizons: Selected South African Landscapes and Seascapes’ traces South Africa’s rich topography through works by painters who depict the land and seas in
Ever since 2014, when collectors Lizelle and Frank Kilbourn initiated Art Month at Welgemeend, this month-long celebration of art has been a highlight of Cape Town’s winter art calendar. This year’s programme once again promises to delight and please, and is guided by the feature exhibition, Satire and Irony, which features a selection of paintings by Robert Hodgins, Stanley Pinker and Alexander Podlashuc and sculptures by Peter Haden, an almost-forgotten artist.
The 2025 edition of Welgemeend Art Month (6 August – 5 September), now in its twelfth year, reaffirms its commitment to the long-term preservation of the historic Welgemeend homestead, home to Cape Town’s much-loved winter arts festival.
Strauss & Co, South Africa’s leading auction house, achieved R195.9 million (R195 936 848) in the period January through June from eight sales.
Strauss & Co’s ‘IMPR: Etchings and Linocuts by JH Pierneef’ achieved a white glove result, returning a 100% sell-through rate of all 29 lots offered. Pierneef was a master printmaker who produced exquisitely detailed and atmospheric etchings as well as stylised, daring and decorative linocuts. His earliest etchings were made in 1910, while he began
Strauss & Co is pleased to announce details of its forthcoming decorative arts sale in Cape Town, due to be held at the Vineyard Hotel on Monday, 7 October. Presented twice annually in Cape Town, this specialist sale is well known for featuring important single-owner collections. The catalogue for the upcoming spring sale includes art and objets from China, England and Japan drawn from two notable collections: the Andrew Newall Collection and the Estate late Mrs Sonia Lapin.
A stirring Irma Stern portrait of a Watussi woman, painted on Stern’s second trip to the Belgian Congo in 1946, leads Strauss & Co’s impressive offering of historical paintings at its forthcoming spring sale in Cape Town. The widely exhibited painting, which is valued at R9 – 12 million, will go on sale at the Vineyard Hotel, Newlands, on 7 October, along with three portraits by Maggie Laubser and a diverse selection of works by J.H. Pierneef, among them five joyous paintings from a single-owner collection.
Johannesburg – Interest in the work of Hylton Nel, the renowned artist-potter whose work inspired the Dior Men’s summer 2025 campaign, saw two cat sculptures smash their pre-sale estimates at a Strauss & Co auction in Johannesburg. Presented in Contemporary South African Ceramics: New Perspectives, a live-virtual auction celebrating new perspectives in ceramic art held
