Strauss & Co: The Coats Family Cellar, arguably the most prestigious fine wine collection ever to come to market in South Africa will go under the hammer in a live virtual auction at Strauss & Co on Sunday 6 November 2022.
Draw breath for the one shilling Dagga Smoker set for a high of almost half a million Rand at Strauss & Co auction
Tastes regularly shift in the art world, but over the last half century Irma Stern has remained highly prized among collectors of South African art, outperforming all other artists at auction.
In a long career spanning 85 years, Peter Clarke produced remarkably few portraits of children making this Portrait of a Young Boy a rare find.
As William Kentridge’s bumper year of global museum exhibitions engages new audiences, and ahead of sales of works by the artist at Strauss & Co in Johannesburg next week, a new international report identifies Strauss & Co as art market leader selling works by William Kentridge.
Strauss & Co’s Spring auction on 12 October at the Vineyard Hotel in Newlands promises a veritable cornucopia of rare and beautiful South African and international art from Irma Stern, JH Pierneef, Pieter Wenning, Jean Welz, Walter Battiss and Erik Laubscher to Robert Hodgins, William Kentridge and Penny Siopis. Younger artists include Georgina Gratrix, Athi-Patra Ruga, 2015 winner of the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Performance Art, and Mohau Modisakeng. An early hand-coloured print by Colin Richards is likely to appeal to discerning collectors. International works range from seventeenth-century portrait paintings to works by Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse and Diego Rivera.
South Africa’s impressive sculpture tradition receives its due in Strauss & Co’s forthcoming live-virtual auction season in Johannesburg (3-9 November 2022), with a dedicated sculpture session titled IN/FORM: Exploring South African Sculpture.
By Sean O’Toole. Rejection can be motivating force in an artist’s life. Take the definitive “no” that prefaced the start of much-loved painter Erik Laubscher’s prodigious career. In 1946, Tulbagh-born Laubscher, whose work is now highly sought after, knocked on a door at the Michaelis School of Fine Art and enquired from a secretary about his application to study at this prestigious Cape Town art school.
Strauss & Co is pleased to announce details for Three Robs: Artist, Collaborator, Friend, the first-ever sale exclusively devoted the much-loved artist, teacher and critic Robert Hodgins.
Items which emerged from the sale in 1942 of The Contents of Vergelegen, the property of Sir Lionel and Lady Phillips will be offered for sale at Strauss & Co, in Cape Town, on 12 October 2015. These include two 18th century aquatints of Cape Town, originally purchased for 3 guineas each (R4 000 – 6 000), and an ornate George III giltwood cartel clock (Edward Clarke, London) inscribed on the reverse ”Mrs L Phillips” (R25 000 – 30 000). Also with the same provenance is a George III style linen press which bears an inventory label for Sir Lionel Phillips Bart, Tylney Hall, his former home in England (R15 000 – 20 000).
