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
CAPE TOWN – The exhibition From Concept to Object / Wanneer Idees GestalteKry provides the organising theme for the 2026 edition of Welgemeend Art Month (1–31 August 2026), Cape Town’s much-loved winter arts festival, now in its thirteenth year. Drawing on works from the Kilbourn Collection and other private collections, the group exhibition explores how artists transform ideas into tangible form. It also includes
Strauss & Co is proud to announce the sale of two extremely rare oil paintings by the celebrated nineteenth-century landscape painter Thomas Bowler (1812–69).
Strauss & Co visits the Regina Mundi Church in Soweto to reunite Larry Scully’s ‘The Madonna and Child of Soweto’ paintings, in what is one of South Africa’s most symbolic and moving settings.
Comprising nearly 150 lots, this landmark once-off sale, will feature over 100 examples of Muafangejo’s masterful linocut prints, as well as a large consignment of 36 original (but cancelled) lino blocks. Orde Levinson, a noted art collector and scholar of Muafangejo, is the sole consignor to this sale, the first-ever devoted to a single artist by Strauss & Co.
Strauss & Co Senior Art Specialist and Head Curator Wilhelm van Rensburg discusses William Kentridge’s ‘Untitled, Drawing from Il Ritorno d’Ulisse’ from the May 2021 Virtual Live Auction.
