Multiple wine records were smashed at Strauss & Co’s live virtual auction in Johannesburg, led by a 200 year-old bottle of Grand Constance 1821, which fetched a staggering R967 300.

Strauss & Co invites collectors to view its latest consignment of modern, post-war and contemporary art, decorative arts and fine wine in its October online-only auction.

A delightful bounty of 2012 vintage wines, historical English and Cape country furniture and eye-catching portraits by South African painters offered by Strauss & Co in a trio of online-only auctions yielded excellent results. The three specialist auctions, which ended at staggered intervals on 14 March 2022, attracted interested buyers from a dozen countries and netted a combined total of R7.3 million.

Strauss & Co has partnered with five of SA’s most respected fine wine producers to offer Africa’s first fine wine Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) on auction from 18-25 April.

A round of applause greeted the R10 469 600 sale of Irma Stern’s Dakar Woman following suspenseful rivalry between two collectors vying by telephone for this important painting.

Strauss & Co’s decorative arts department is pleased to announce details of its current online-only sale of Asian art, due to end on 25 April 2022.

On the centenary of Irma Stern’s debut solo exhibition in South Africa and the half-centenary of the opening of the Irma Stern Museum in Cape Town, Strauss & Co is proud to be hosting a single-artist auction entirely devoted to this illustrious artist.

Strauss & Co is pleased to announce its participation in the 2022 instalment of August Art Month.

Strauss & Co October Online-Only Auction