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
A major event in the Johannesburg auction calendar, Strauss & Co’s November Flagship Sales (17–19 November 2025) will showcase the finest South African modern and contemporary art across four auctions. The live-virtual Evening Sale (Tuesday, 18 November, 7pm) features landmark works from museum retrospectives of Maggie Laubser, George Pemba and Alexis Preller. Maggie Laubser’s double-sided
