Two extraordinary paintings by Gerard Sekoto and Penny Siopis, celebrated artists admired for their creative engagement with social life in South Africa, lead an impressive consignment of high-value paintings in Strauss & Co’s live-virtual Evening Sale: Modern and Contemporary Art. Painted fifty years apart, at either end of the defining historical event of high apartheid
A historically important Gerard Sekoto painting depicting Sophiatown, a multi-cultural suburb of Johannesburg destroyed under apartheid, leads an exceptional consignment of works by ground-breaking black artists in Strauss & Co’s flagship live-virtual Evening Sale of modern and contemporary art in Johannesburg on Tuesday, 26 May 2026 at 7pm. They include pioneer black modernists Gerard Bhengu
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