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Vladimir Tretchikoff Painting Smashes World Auction Record at Strauss & Co Sale in Johannesburg
Watch Now Head of Department, Dr Alastair Meredith discussing Vladimir Tretchikoff’s Lady from the Orient (1955)
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.
Linn Ware: Celebrating the Ceramics of Olifantsfontein
Strauss & Co is honoured to present ‘Linn Ware: Celebrating the Ceramics of Olifantsfontein’, a timed online sale running from 2 May to 13 May 2025.
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
Botterblom Collection by Frances vH Mohair Studio
Strauss & Co is delighted to present the highly anticipated auction of The Botterblom Collection by Frances vH Mohair Studio.
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,
Honouring the legacy of Dr Conrad Strauss
Dr Conrad Strauss, a distinguished businessman, philanthropist and co-founder of Strauss & Co.
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).
