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
• 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
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
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 is delighted to announce details of its forthcoming live sale in Johannesburg on 12 November. The sale, which has a combined pre-sale estimate of R80 million, is a celebration of Johannesburg and its many talented artists, curators and collectors. The sale commemorates the city’s important role in shaping South African art history.
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,
In a packed saleroom at the Wanderers Club on Monday, November 12th, an exceptional casein landscape by J.H Pierneef and an oil painting by Moses Tladi set new records at Strauss & Co’s live Summer sale, which confirmed it as the pioneering auction house on the African continent.
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
Cape Town (16 November 2018) – A selection of exciting works from leading contemporary artists from Africa and its diaspora will be up for auction at Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA). Held in partnership with Strauss & Co, the much-anticipated live auction will take place at the museum on Saturday 1 December 2018.
Strauss & Co is pleased to announce the second of its contemporary art sales, the only such sale in South Africa devoted exclusively to this exciting category. The announcement of this 107-lot sale, due to be held on 16 February during the run of the Investec Cape Town Art Fair (15 – 17 February), coincides with news that Jack Ginsberg, noted Johannesburg collector and philanthropist, has joined the board of Strauss & Co.
