Strauss & Co is pleased to present ‘Eastern Cape Echoes: Selected Works from Tsitsikamma to Lusikisiki’, a sale that brings together a selection of artworks by artists who either originate from, live in, or draw inspiration from the Eastern Cape — a region where storytelling takes root in fertile ground. Included in the Timed Online
A magisterial floral still life by Irma Stern, South Africa’s foremost painter, is the highlight of Strauss & Co’s bountiful crop of offerings at its forthcoming spring sale in Cape Town on 15 October. Painted in 1947, Dahlias (estimate R8 – 12 million) is a peak-period Stern depicting a favoured flower and additionally claims an impeccable provenance.
Brücke Museum, Berlin, 13 July – 2 November 2025 The life and work of Irma Stern will be celebrated in Irma Stern: A Modern Artist between Berlin and Cape Town, a landmark exhibition at the Brücke Museum in Berlin (13 July – 2 November 2025). Click here for more information. Featuring over 40 paintings, watercolours
The landscape genre is a key part of the story of South African art and remains a highly sought-after collectable at auction. More than half of the twelve most valuable artists sold at auction by Strauss & Co since 2009 worked with landscape, including Walter Battiss, Maggie Laubser, Hugo Naudé and Cecil Skotnes, but none were as faithful to this country’s geographical abundance as JH Pierneef.
The Late Peter and Regina Strack Collection
CAPE TOWN – The Engen Collection, a dynamic corporate collection of mostly abstract expressionist paintings reflecting a distinctive trend in late 1980s South African art, drew strong interest when it went under the hammer during Strauss & Co’s June ART Auction week in Cape Town. Offered as a standalone session, the live-virtual sale realised R1.7
Strauss & Co, South Africa’s leading auction house, is honoured to present 20 works in various media from the Namibia-based collection of the Late Peter and Regina Strack. The sale, which includes three rare Adolph Jentsch oils and a major Fritz Krampe oil, will be offered in a dedicated segment at the auction house’s forthcoming sale in Cape Town on 15 October.
Strauss & Co is pleased to present ‘South African Design: Past & Present’, a sale tracing the heritage of South African design across centuries of creative expression. The Timed Online Auction, closing on Wednesday, July 9th, highlights diverse design objects through two sessions: ‘Cape Interiors: Furniture, Metalware, Silver & Glass’ and ‘Interior Elements: Wood, Metal,
A commanding selection of works from single-owner collections, including a museum-quality Irma Stern still life, Namibian landscapes by Adolph Jentsch and an important Japanese satsuma vase, are some of the highlights from Strauss & Co’s forthcoming Spring sale. The sale, which also includes a late-period landscape by JH Pierneef from 1945 and two striking portraits by Maggie Laubser from the 1920s, will be held in Cape Town on 15 October at the Vineyard Hotel in Cape Town.
Strauss & Co is pleased to present ‘Mary Eleanor Hibbert Cape Silver Collection’, one of the most important collections of Cape silver assembled over many decades. The Live Virtual Auction, taking place on Wednesday, 9 July, features rare pieces, including a double beaker, alms dish, sugar bowls, snuff boxes and 18ct gold clasps from the
