Toyota SU Woordfees, in collaboration with Strauss & Company, are proud to present BUBBLE – Bubbles of Delight – an exhibition and auction to take place at Stellenbosch Town Hall, curated by Teresa Lizamore, owner and director of Lizamore and Associates Gallery and specialist fine art curator.  The opening of the visual arts took place

Strauss & Co, Africa’s leading auction house, announces Johannesburg Auction Week (6-8 November 2023), a series of curated auctions profiling leading modernist and contemporary artists. Moses Tladi, the first black artist to exhibit in the South African National Gallery, is represented by three rare landscapes. Bronzes by acclaimed mid-century sculptors Ezrom Legae and Sydney Kumalo

• Sale presents 111 works by artists from more than 20 countries
• Late-period Renoir expected to sell for R2 – 3 million / $106 287 – 159 430
• High-value works by Mr Brainwash, Jeff Koons, John Piper, Edward Seago, Joža Uprka, Andy Warhol and William Wylie
• Enslin du Plessis leads cohort of South African artists including Albert Adams

• Johannesburg Auction Week presents 247 lots with combined value of
R71 million-100 million
• Exceptional landscapes by modernists J.H. Pierneef and Moses Tladi
• High-value still lifes by Irma Stern and Alexis Preller
• Rare Kentridge prints lead specialist sale focusing on South African print studios
• Important contemporary art by Tracey Rose, Athi-Patra Ruga Billie Zangewa

• Renoir’s Fruits (Oranges et Citrons) fetches R4.575 million / $238 300
• Spotlight sale earns R8.825 million/ $462 250 after 75% lots sold
• New buyers account for more than half of successful bids
• Strong showing by modernist British and European artists

• Three rare landscapes by Moses Tladi lead museum-quality offering of paintings by pioneer black moderns
• High-value lots by Peter Clarke, Dumile Feni and Gerard Sekoto
• Bronzes by Ezrom Legae and Sydney Kumalo from John and Elisabeth Bradley Collection