Strauss & Co is delighted to announce its upcoming March ART auction, a timed online sale that will close on 10th March 2025 at 2pm. The sale showcases a curated selection of South Africa-influenced Art, celebrating the diversity and evolution of artmaking in the country. Notably, this sale includes a special focus on the collection
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 commenced its 2025 sales programme with February Sales, one live and six online auctions encompassing art, wine and design. Held during the bustling week of 12th edition of the Investec Cape Town Art Fair and 2nd edition of the Stellenbosch Triennale, the seven curated auctions netted a combined income of R18 511 384 / $1 005 681.
Strauss & Co, South Africa’s leading auction house, achieved R195.9 million (R195 936 848) in the period January through June from eight sales.
Cape Town, South Africa – Norval Foundation and The Sovereign Art Foundation (SAF) are delighted to announce Modupeola Fadugba as the Grand Prize Winner for The Norval Sovereign African Art Prize 2025, sponsored by Schroders.
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.
CAPE TOWN — Strauss & Co’s live auction Perspectives on Africa: Modern and Contemporary Art, taking place on Monday, 17 February 2025, gathers an excellent selection of collectable modern and contemporary art from the African continent.
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.
CAPE TOWN — Strauss & Co is pleased to present ‘Perspectives on Africa: Modern and Contemporary Art’. The live auction, taking place on Monday, 17 February 2025, is accompanied by a curated selection of sales, including “Prelude to Podlashuc: A Glimpse into the Creative World of Alexander Podlashuc” — an artist-focused auction — “Woven Legacies:
• 688-lot sale totals R55 million • Top lot – Irma Stern’s Watussi Woman with Mountains realises R10 242 000 • 3 new world records established including Judith Mason, Neil Rodger and Walter Meyer • JH Pierneef’s early Impressionistic work Gold & Green, Rooiplaat, N.T. sells for R2 732 200, 4 times the pre-sale estimate • Decorative Arts and Jewellery combined achieve a total of R12 million
