The Strauss & Co Fine Wine department is proud to offer wines from Burgundy & Champagne in our current timed online auction, closing on Monday, 12th June. There are 106 lots going under the hammer featuring mature South African and French fine wines. The wines of Burgundy and single vineyard Champagnes are produced in small quantities and command
CAPE TOWN: Strauss & Co Fine Wine Auctions unveils six significant collections of the world’s greatest wines, that have also been minted as NFTs, including Penfolds Grange, Domaine de La Romanée Conti, Château Mouton Rothchild, Château d’Yquem, Screaming Eagle and Harlan Estate that will be sold online in July 2023 (Registration and Bidding now open
Strauss & Co is pleased to announce details for C.100 Sculptures, a timed-online auction of modern and contemporary South African sculpture in various media that closes on Wednesday, 5 July 2023. The auction features rare and important bronzes by artists Deborah Bell, Ezrom Legae and Haroon Gunn-Salie from The John and Elisabeth Bradley Collection.
Leading South African auction house, Strauss & Co, is delighted to present a selection of exquisite silverware in its upcoming June timed online auction.
• Strong presence of modern and contemporary African artists at Venice Biennale
• Successful fourth edition of African Art in Venice Forum
• Strauss & Co May auction includes eight modernists in Venice Biennale
• Opinion suggests this biennale is inflection point for African modernists
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).
Strauss & Co, Africa’s leading art auction house, is pleased to announce that they will be hosting a free valuation day in Windhoek on 29 April 2024. This event presents residents with an exclusive opportunity to have their artworks assessed and valued by experts.
Property from the Rodwell House Collection to be included in Strauss & Co’s Auction of Important South African and International Art, Furniture, Decorative Arts and Jewellery, Cape Town 12 October 2015
VENICE – On Tuesday, 16 April 2024, a generous abundance of African creative talent – including artists and curators directly involved in the official programme for the 60th Venice Biennale – will contribute their knowledge and insight to the African Art in Venice Forum (AAVF 2024). Established in 2017, the AAVF is a public and free discursive platform held biannually during the opening week of the Venice Biennale.
Last night a chest of drawers sold for close on R2 600 000 at Strauss & Co’s auction in Cape Town drawing gasps from the packed saleroom. This important 18th century chest of drawers, which was formerly part of the collection of Vergelegen, was hotly contested between two international buyers on the telephone.
