Paintings dominate the offerings in Strauss & Co’s forthcoming October sale in Cape Town, but there is a noticeable contemporary attitude about this spring auction.
Important Collection of original works by 19th-Century Artist Thomas Bowler Goes Up for Auction
Strauss & Co’s March ART online auction features a single artist session focusing exclusively on 19th-century British artist and landscape painter Thomas Bowler. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for collectors to acquire pieces directly from a collection curated by Dr. Frank Bradlow, Bowler’s biographer and a luminary in Africana collectables.
Archived: Red-hot sale on a cool Cape day
A night of vigorous bidding at Strauss & Co’s s spring auction in Cape Town generated R58 million in sales, a record for the Cape Town office and the second highest individual sale result for South Africa’s leading auction house. The sale, which featured over 630 pieces, achieved an 82.5% sell-through rate, an achievement unmatched by rivals.
The 2014 Vintage plays the starring role in the Strauss & Co March wine auction
Strauss & Co’s March Timed Online Wine auction is themed around the 2014 Vintage. One of the most important measures of great wine is that it should be age-worthy, that it should become more pleasurable and more interesting to drink with time in the bottle. Just how well do modern-era South African wines perform as they get older?
Archived: Top Ten Lots, 10 October 2016
Important South African and International Art, Decorative Arts and Jewellery – Cape Town, 10 October 2016
But is it Surrealist? London audiences will finally get to see and debate Alexis Preller’s audacious symbolist paintings
In this centenary year of the founding of Surrealism, Strauss & Co will host Alexis Preller: Surreal Discovery, our first official London selling exhibition dedicated to the revered South African painter Alexis Preller. Much lauded in his home country, Preller was frequently and controversially associated with Surrealism, a revolutionary European art and literary movement founded
Archived: Homecoming: Strauss & Co offers lost treasures of SA art
A key work by painter Alexis Preller, for decades presumed lost, is among the standout lots on Strauss & Co’s forthcoming Johannesburg summer auction. The sale, scheduled to take place at the Wanderers Club on 7 November, includes a number of important works repatriated to this country from international collections, notably by Preller, Walter Battiss, Cecil Skotnes and Edoardo Villa.
Strauss & Co is a vital contributor to Cape Town’s pulsating month of summer art activities
• Strauss & Co successfully handles five auctions in February
• Top price achieved for J.H. Pierneef street scene of Tulbagh
• Solid prices realised for Ablade Glover, Esther Mahlangu and Zandile Tshabalala
• Exhibition for Alfred Thoba and another edition of Art Business Conference
Archived: A Selection of Highlights, 7 November 2016
Important South African and International Art – Johannesburg 7 November 2016
Archived: Rarely seen Prellers form part of remarkable trove going under the hammer
A career-spanning selection of paintings made by Alexis Preller between 1935 and 1975, some held in major collections and many unseen for decades, will go under the hammer at Strauss & Co’s forthcoming auction in Johannesburg. "What an array of ways of working!" enthused Professor Karel Nel, a respected artist and noted Preller expert, during a recent lecture on Preller. The lecture, which was hosted by Strauss & Co, offered an insight into the biographical context and outstanding aesthetic attributes of the ten Preller lots on offer.
