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.
Strauss & Co, South Africa’s leading auction house, has experienced brisk trade in the period January to June, generating combined sales of R120 million (R120 588 713). The company’s three live sales, which this year included a new specialist auction exclusively focusing on contemporary art, generated the lion’s share of the turnover, netting R111 million (R111 053 588). Four online sales brought in R9.5 million (R9 530 200).
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:
Strauss & Co is adding to its considerable presence at the upcoming RMB Turbine Art Fair (TAF) with an online auction that provides emerging art collectors with an affordable, accessible platform.
Strauss & Co is proud to present ‘Woven Legacies: Tradition & Innovation.’ The Timed Online Sale — opening on 2 February and closing on 24 February 2025 from 2 pm — celebrates creativity and cultural heritage by showcasing the evolution of artisanal craftsmanship across the African continent.
Collectors Frank and Lizelle Kilbourn have over the past three decades amassed a remarkable treasure trove of works by South African women artists, a selection of which will be on view at Welgemeend, a historic manor house in central Cape Town for the duration of August 2018.
Strauss & Co is delighted to announce ‘February ART’, a thoughtfully curated timed online auction, closing on 10 February at 2 pm. The sale brings together a selection of works spanning multiple mediums, including works on paper, books, ceramics, photography and sculpture, by both South African and international artists.
Art Month at Welgemeend is an important event on Cape Town’s winter arts calendar that every year features a harvest of artistic talent drawn from collectors Frank and Lizelle Kilbourn’s personal collection. This year’s exhibition, Shifting Boundaries: A Selection of Works showcasing South African Women Artists of the Past 100 Years, highlights how successive generations of women artists have been at the vanguard of South African art.
An emphatically modern portrait by Irma Stern of an unknown young woman with stylishly waved hair and fashionable dress leads a group of remarkable portrait paintings on offer at Strauss & Co’s forthcoming live sale at the Wanderers Club on 5 June.
On Monday night a previously unseen painting by JH Pieneef, Farm Jonkershoek with Twin Peaks Beyond, Stellenbosch, will go under the hammer at Strauss & Co’s June auction at the Wanderers Club in Johannesburg.
