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.
Strauss & Co’s upcoming auction on Monday 14 March at the Vineyard Hotel in Cape Town offers many exceptional works by major South African artists from JH Pierneef, Hugo Naudé, Walter Battiss, Gerard Sekoto, Gregoire Boonzaier and Erik Laubscher to Robert Hodgins, William Kentridge, Sue Williamson, Athi-Patra Ruga and Ian Grose. Amongst these, Birds and Boats (R700 000 – 900 000) by Maggie Laubser is one of the most charming paintings by this much-loved artist to appear at auction in recent years, according to Senior Art Specialist Emma Bedford.
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.
Browse, bid or buy from the luxury of your own home on the latest Strauss & Co online auction from 15 – 22 February 2016
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.
Look out for Strauss & Co’s eye-catching auction catalogue with its amusing cover, Bad Man in Great Threads (R700 000 – 900 000) by Robert Hodgins.
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.
Modestly scaled and less architectonic than his oils, JH Pierneef’s casein paintings are widely regarded as amongst his most lyrical works. The artist is said to have produced upwards of 50 landscape studies using casein, a milk-based binding agent that Pierneef obtained from a Dusseldorf-based supplier. Characterised by their notational brushstrokes and impressionistic use of colour, Pierneef’s casein works are a benchmark of his intuition and assuredness as a painter.
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.
Phenomenal results achieved at Strauss & Co’s Cape Town 16 March Auction – over R50 million sold. Here a list of the top ten lots by value with images of the top three.
