Stellenbosch: Strauss & Co, proudly presents 2025 Toyota Stellenbosch Woordfees Benefit Auction, curated by RESERVOIR. The auction will be available for public viewing at Stellenbosch City Hall from 11 – 19 October 2025, with the online auction closing on 20 October 2025. True to RESERVOIR’s commitment to championing contemporary art, the auction brings together works
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.
Strauss & Co is pleased to present ‘The Fine Jewellery Sale’, launching online on our website on Friday, 26th September 2025, with a live Evening Sale on Monday, 27th October 2025, in Cape Town. The auction features an exceptional selection of jewellery pieces from luxury jewellery houses, including South Africa’s own Browns and famed international
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.
CAPE TOWN – Strauss & Co is proud to be a silver sponsor of the 2025 Toyota Stellenbosch Woordfees (11–19 October 2025), which this year marks its 25th anniversary with a vibrant programme of more than 400 productions under the theme “Share”. Guided by Strauss & Co director and art patron Caro Wiese, Strauss &
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 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.
Strauss & Co is proud to present a landmark fine wine auction celebrating South Africa’s vinous heritage – featuring the Engen Cellar Collection, an extraordinary private cellar that includes some of the rarest and most historically significant South African wines from the 1970s to 1980s. This cellar has exceeded all expectations in both condition and consistency, particularly remarkable given the age of the
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.
Strauss & Co presents “The Luxury Edit: Designer Handbags and Accessories“, the first of its kind with the company. The timed online auction (22 September – 6th October 2025) brings together luxury goods from renowned international design houses; Bottega Veneta, Chanel, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Yves Saint Laurent, alongside the South African design house, Lorenzi, the
