Tag: Culture

Strauss & Co partners with Art Auction East Africa to bolster secondary market for East African art

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• Two-part auction: live-virtual sale and concurrent timed-online works on paper • Live sale headlined by Geoffrey Mukasa, K. F. Msangi and Sam Ntiro • Partnership builds on Circle Art Agency’s Art Auction East Africa – pioneering work in Kenya since 2013 NAIROBI – Strauss & Co, Africa’s leading auction house, and Danda Jaroljmek, Director of Art Auction East Africa, are pleased to announce details of Art

Tretchikoff: New Discoveries of Exceptional Beauty

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The astonishing shift, over the last decade and a half, in the reputation and value of one of South Africa’s most iconic and recognisable artists, Vladimir Tretchikoff, is nothing short of remarkable. Once dismissively relegated by critics as ‘The King of Kitsch’, he is now recognised as a trailblazer who produced works that were at

Rare works by celebrated Durban painter Andrew Verster to be offered in September sale

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Strauss & Co is delighted to present Andrew Verster: Gorgeous and Free, a landmark timed-online auction devoted exclusively to the celebrated Durban painter, educator, critic and activist Andrew Verster (1937–2020). Running from 25 August to 18 September 2025, the sale marks the first time an auction house has dedicated an entire sale to Verster’s work. Comprising

Welgemeend Art Month returns with major exhibition and bold new pledge fund

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The 2025 edition of Welgemeend Art Month (6 August – 5 September), now in its twelfth year, reaffirms its commitment to the long-term preservation of the historic Welgemeend homestead, home to Cape Town’s much-loved winter arts festival.

Welgemeend Art Month announces the title and focus on their anchor exhibition for 2025 

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Drawing on the extensive Kilbourn Collection of modern and contemporary South African art, the exhibition In en Om Ons/ In and Around Us explores what it means to be an artist working after the advent of photography. The exhibition – a cornerstone of Welgemeend Art Month, now in its 12th year – will feature select paintings and photographs from the Kilbourn Collection that explore ideas of subjectivity, consciousness, home, play and work.  

Tretchikoff’s Lady from the Orient (1955) leads Strauss & Co’s flagship sale

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JOHANNESBURG – Strauss & Co, Africa’s leading auction house, is delighted to announce the inclusion of Vladimir Tretchikoff’s Lady from the Orient (estimate R5–7 million / $266,790–373,534), a global icon of twentieth-century painting, as a highlight of its flagship live sale on Tuesday, 27 May 2025, in Johannesburg.