Penny Siopis emerged onto the South African art scene with her now highly sought-after cake paintings.
Archived: Preller Prevails at Strauss & Co’s June Auction
277 lots of Important South African and International art are set to go under the hammer at Strauss & Co’s Johannesburg auction on 30 June 2014.
Archived: Preller, from the unfinished to the finished at Strauss & Co Auction
A plethora of no less than ten works by internationally acclaimed artist, Alexis Preller, steal the show at Strauss & Co’s major art auction in Johannesburg on Monday 30 June.
Archived: Meteoric rise in value of artwork
At Strauss & Co’s major auction of Important South African & International Art which took place yesterday evening in Johannesburg, over 200 artworks went under the hammer, achieving a total of R36 million.
Archived: Discovery of Double-sided Laubser Painting Delights at Strauss Spring Auction
An extraordinary discovery was made when the owners of a beautiful Maggie Laubser painting decided to reframe it. To their surprise, they found an equally good painting on the back. According to Stephan Welz, South Africa’s top modern art expert and auctioneer, this remarkable double-sided painting, which is to be offered at Strauss & Co’s 21 October auction at the Vineyard Hotel in Newlands, also has an impeccable provenance and interesting history.
Archived: Pierneef on a Grand Scale
The 1920s represented a period of experimentation and innovation for Jacob Hendrik Pierneef.
Archived: Preller’s Exotic Explorations
Between 1948 and 1949 Alexis Preller enjoyed a sojourn in the Seychelles and whether this sensual still life was painted there or shortly afterwards, it was no doubt inspired by his experiences of the place and its people.
Archived: Stern Scintillates at Strauss & Co’s October Auction
A selection of paintings establishing Irma Stern as a leading Modernist painter and, furthermore, as an intrepid collector of top quality African art, will be offered at Strauss & Co’s 21 October 2013 auction at the Vineyard Hotel in Newlands, Cape Town.
Archived: WWF Art Auction Poised to Raise Record Funds
Some of the oldest recorded works of art can be traced to archaeological sites from across southern Africa. Recent research suggests that this ancient art is synonymous with the very essence of being human that the development of cognition allowed our ancestors to think differently and to express unique human traits through language, art and religion.
Archived: Kruger on the Station
According to tradition this is a representation of the old President as he witnessed the departure of the first Boer commandos from Pretoria station to the front in Natal. …
