Strauss & Co realised a staggering R46 million at last nights Cape Town auction.

A striking number of iconic artworks by South Africas foremost artists will lead Strauss & Cos South African and International Art sale at The Wanderers Club, Illovo, Johannesburg on 20 May 2013.

Strauss & Co, in conjunction with the charity Vintage, with Love, are staging an auction of vintage couture from the personal archives of the legendary South African couturier, Chris Levin.

Strauss & Co’s autumn auction of important South African & International Art to be held at The Wanderers Club in Johannesburg on Monday, 20 May, features two sleek and stylish items of office furniture designed by the celebrated Danish architect and designer, Bodil Kjaer.

Johannesburg: Dying Swan by Vladimir Tretchikoff, one of the most commercially successful artists of our time, will be sold by leading auction house, Strauss & Co, on 20 May 2013

Johannesburg: Frans Oerder’s still life, Blossom Time, will be sold at Strauss & Co’s much anticipated Evening Sale on Monday 20 May 2013 in the Wanderers Club Ballroom.

Controversial Russian born artist Vladimir Tretchikoff, nicknamed King of Kitsch, is top of the pops as auction prices for his paintings continue to soar, seemingly eclipsing the two long-time market leaders Pierneef and Stern.

Strauss & Co, Johannesburg: The much disputed decision by the Institute for Catholic Education to sell the Cecil Skotnes triptych removed from the Santa Sophia Chapel in Pretoria has had an astounding result.

Last Thursday evening a glamorous occasion took place in the Wanderers Club Ballroom Johannesburg, during which 50 magnificent garments of vintage couture from the private collection of South African fashion legend Chris Levin, went under the hammer.

Gregoire Boonzaier was, according to Dr Albert Werth, esteemed former director of the Pretoria Art Museum, the painter of Cape Town who was able, with his characteristic signature, to capture the city in all its changing beauty.1 That signature changed over time, making this early vision remarkable not only for what it reveals historically of the city in the 1940s but for its evidence of the artist’s early style.