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.
Two Cape icons, Stern and Tretchikoff, highlights of Strauss & Co’s flagship Cape Town auction series, including single-artist sale for Verster
Strauss & Co is pleased to announce details of its September auctions of modern and contemporary art, to be held in Cape Town from 16 to 18 September 2025. The three-part programme includes: a live Evening Sale of high-value Modern and Contemporary Art, an online Day Sale of Modern and Contemporary art and a landmark
Archived: The Late Peter and Regina Strack Collection
The Late Peter and Regina Strack Collection
Rare works by celebrated Durban painter Andrew Verster to be offered in September sale
Strauss & Co is delighted to present Andrew Verster: Gorgeous and Free, a landmark timed-online auction devoted exclusively to the celebrated Durban painter, educator, critic and activist Andrew Verster (1937–2020). Running from 25 August to 18 September 2025, the sale marks the first time an auction house has dedicated an entire sale to Verster’s work. Comprising
Archived: Important Namibian paintings from The Late Peter and Regina Strack Collection poised to go under the hammer in South Africa
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.
Archived: Unstinting connoisseurship: Important collections form the bedrock of Strauss & Co 2019 Spring sale
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 Fine Wine Auctions Redefines the Market
The partnership between Africa’s leading art and collectables Auction House Strauss & Co, retailer WineCellar and Higgo Jacobs has given insight into South Africa’s wine history and boosted the fine wine market. The Strauss & Co auction platform has allowed collectors and consumers to buy and sell old wines that have been vetted by a specialist team. Strauss & Co has offered wines
Archived: Single-owner collections snapped up by collectors at Strauss & Co spring sale
• Strauss & Co auction totals R50 million, with a 76% sold rate, the highest in the current market • Stern masterpiece realises R9.1 million • New world auction records achieved for Fritz Krampe and Judith Mason A vivid floral still life by South Africa’s foremost painter, Irma Stern, was the top lot at Strauss & Co’s R50-million grossing spring sale in Cape Town, selling for R9.1 million. The sale, Strauss & Co’s fourth and penultimate live sale of the year, also saw two new world records achieved for works by Judith Mason and Fritz Krampe
15 Years of the Cassirer Welz Award and announcement of the 2025 Award Winner
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 &
Archived: Four singular artists bolster Strauss & Co 2019 R80-million Johannesburg sale
Biggest art auction to be held in Southern Africa with paintings worth over R80 million at Strauss & Co set to break records Museum quality masterwork paintings by South Africa’s leading artists set to take Strauss & Co’s sale to record breaking levels A feast of 11 Irma Sterns; 17 Pierneeefs; 9 Maggie Laubsers; 5 Alexis Prellers and a Tribute to Unsung Artists with a selection of their work on sale
