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

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.

March ART – A Tribute to South Africa-influenced Art with Special Focus on writer Melvyn Minnaar

Strauss & Co is delighted to announce its upcoming March ART auction, a timed online sale that will close on 10th March 2025 at 2pm. The sale showcases a curated selection of South Africa-influenced Art, celebrating the diversity and evolution of artmaking in the country. Notably, this sale includes a special focus on the collection

Strauss & Co launches a BUY NOW DROP SHOP with a “Midnight-to-Midnight Sale”

For four days only, collectors are invited to participate in the exclusive Midnight-to-Midnight Sale, where they can acquire exceptional artworks from a curated selection by established and emerging artists across a variety of mediums — at a fixed price, with no competitive bidding. Enjoy a seamless and immediate buying experience from midnight on Thursday, 28th November, to 11:59pm on Monday,

Auction Record for Tretchikoff

CAPE TOWN – The much-loved Russian-born Cape Town painter Vladimir Tretchikoff’s Balinese Girl, an absorbing portrait of a young Indonesian woman in traditional dress, thought to be painted circa 1954-56, sold to a telephone buyer at Strauss & Co’s evening sale of modern and contemporary art for R5 718 750 / $324 842, a new SA record. Earlier

A peak-period Tretchikoff painting, suffused with beauty and glamour, leads Strauss & Co’s September Auction Week

CAPE TOWN – A pinnacle work by Vladimir Tretchikoff, the much-loved Russian-born Cape Town painter whose vivid portraiture and canny marketing strategies prefigured Pop art, leads Strauss & Co’s September Auction Week (16 – 18 September 2024). Painted circa 1954-56, Balinese Girl (estimate R5 – 7 million/ $278 520 – $390 000) derives from Tretchikoff’s classic period, when he originated such iconic works as Chinese Girl (1952) and Lady from Orient(1955). 

The Appointment of Strauss & Co’s Advisory Board Members

CAPE TOWN – Strauss & Co, Africa’s leading art auction house, is delighted to announce the appointment of four respected professionals – Millard Arnold, Heba El Kayal, Liesl Fichardt and Greg Maloka – to its newly constituted Advisory Board. This important consultative body broadens Strauss & Co’s intelligence network at a time of growing interest in the diverse creative expressions and artisanal traditions of Southern Africa. Its establishment further complementsStrauss & Co’s marketing and educational initiatives in key international markets.