Not even an unpredictable national electricity grid could deter collectors from pursuing the 71 lots in Strauss & Co’s single-artist sale of works by the much-loved landscape painter J. H. Pierneef.
Cape Town Auction Week, Strauss & Co’s marquee sale of art, wine, decorative arts and jewellery, successfully concluded on 22 September 2022 with solid results noted across a number of categories.
A boutique sale of the property of a Johannesburg book designer hosted earlier this week by Strauss & Co concluded on a highly positive note with 93% of the 233 lots finding buyers.
Strauss & Co art specialist Marion Dixon discusses the painterliness in the work of Contemporary South African painters Georgina Gratrix , Mia Chaplin and Bastiaan van Stenis coming up in the March 2021 Online-Only Auction.
A beloved artist among collectors, the modernist painter and printmaker J.H. Pierneef once again graces the cover of Strauss & Co’s printed catalogue for its forthcoming live sale of 19th Century, Modern, Post-war and Contemporary art, Decorative arts, Jewellery and Fine Wine, due to be held over three days from 11 to 13 April.
Two South African auction stalwarts, Anton van Wouw and JH Pierneef, topped the rankings at Strauss & Co’s first virtual-live sale of 2021 when prime examples of their work traded hands for R5.1 million each. The sale earned a total of R 59.376 million.
Strauss & Co Senior Art Specialist Marion Dixon discusses highlighted lots in Session 2 – Contemporary Art, of the May 2021 Virtual Live Auction.
Strauss & Co Senior Art Specialist Wilhelm van Rensburg is in conversation with Sanlam Art Collection curator Stefan Hundt as they discuss the extensive collection, its origins, the acquisition policy, and the remarkable role Sanlam plays in the art ecology of South Africa.
Strauss & Co is pleased to provide advance details of its forthcoming live virtual sale, Impression/Expression: from Hugo Naudé to Georgina Gratrix, due to be held on Tuesday, 14 September 2021 at 6pm. The 90-lot sale, which will be livestreamed from Johannesburg, broadly explores the legacies of impressionism and expressionism, two important western art movements,
Strauss & Co is pleased to announce details of the latest edition of its popular online-only sales, which commences on Monday, 20 September 2021.
