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  • Connections Between The Venice Biennale & South African Art

    Strauss & Co announced details of its Venice Biennale-themed online-only auction, open for bidding till 25 April 2022. Timed to coincide with the launch of the 59th edition of the Venice Biennale in late April, and Strauss & Co’s sponsorship of the African Art in Venice Forum 2022 at Hotel Monaco & Grand Canal on…

  • Exhibition Exploring Figuration In Contemporary Art

    Figuration is a powerful conceptual thread linking historical, traditional, modernist, and contemporary art in Africa. Strauss & Co’s first offering of the year will be a prestigious non-selling exhibition, titled Giving Direction: Figuration, Past and Present. On view at the historical homestead of Welgemeend in Cape Town, the exhibition and its accompanying schedule of events will…

  • Samuel Nnorom Announced As Cassirer Welz Award 2021 Winner

    Samuel Nnorom is a multi-talented artist who seeks to explore several materials. He holds a BAed  (sculpture major) from the University of Jos and currently concluding an MFA in sculpture from the  University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Samuel was the winner of the national art competition organised by the  National Gallery of Art in 2010 and…

  • Champagne Pops Expected For Heroic Works By Preller & Stern

    Great pictures are the champagne of the auction market. Two post-war paintings with remarkable fizz, a blazing mural-scale work by Alexis Preller and a light-infused harbour scene by Irma Stern, lend Strauss & Co’s forthcoming live virtual auction on 11-12 October extra anticipation. These premier lots are expected to achieve popping results. Since 2009, works…

  • Works From William Kentridge’s Career Under The Hammer In May

    The fourteen exciting lots by pre-eminent South African artist William Kentridge on Strauss & Co’s May Virtual Live auction span nearly forty years of the artist’s evolving career as a print maker of international repute. The mostrecent work in the sale, Refugees (You Will Find No Other Seas) (estimate R 600 000 – 800 000), dating from 2017,…

  • Museum-Grade Works By Printmaker John Muafangejo To Go On Sale

    Strauss & Co is thrilled to announce details of an exceptional sale uniquely devoted to the celebrated Namibian printmaker John Muafangejo. Comprising nearly 150 lots, this landmark once-off sale, due to open online on 26 April, will feature over 100 examples of Muafangejo’s masterful linocut prints, as well as a large consignment of 36 original…

  • Banksy & Mr Brainwash Underpin Strauss & Co’s Contemporary Offering

    Original works by Banksy and Mr Brainwash, two trailblazers of the disruptive street art scene, as well as an early assemblage work by Simphiwe Ndzube lead Strauss & Co’s diverse catalogue of contemporary art up for sale on 13 April. In a first for the South African auction house, Strauss & Co is offering an…

  • [AUCTION] The Madonna And Child Of Soweto, A Symbol Of Hope

    One of the highlights in Strauss & Co’s April 2021 marquee auction, to be held in Cape Town from 11–13 April, is The Madonna and Child of Soweto, also known as the Black Madonna, executed in 1976 by renowned abstract painter Larry Scully. This painting references Larry Scully’s most famous painting also titled The Madonna and Child of Soweto (1973),…

  • Two Rare Oils By Pioneer Painter Thomas Bowler Enter The Market

    Strauss & Co is proud to announce the sale of two extremely rare oil paintings by the celebrated nineteenth-century landscape painter Thomas Bowler (1812–69). Bowler is best known for his many watercolours and prints, less so his exceptional – and also extraordinarily rare – oil paintings. This sale of two Bowler oils from the early…

  • Single-Owner Designer Book And Art Collection On Sale At Strauss & Co

    Strauss & Co’s Property of a Johannesburg Book Designer sale, which runs from 1 to 8 March, is unprecedented in the premier auction house’s history. Featuring an eclectic array of paintings, prints, sculpture and furniture, and more than 100 rare and exciting art, design, photography and architecture books, the lots on sale come from the collection of…

  • “Mphe Mphe Ya Lapisa.” A Solo Exhibition By Levy Pooe Opens This Weekend

    The Bag Factory is pleased to present Mphe Mphe Ya Lapisa, a solo exhibition of new work by Levy Pooe, winner of the prestigious 2020 Cassirer Welz Award presented by the Bag Factory in partnership with Strauss Education. This body of work is an extension of Pooe’s ongoing themes that revolve around his relationship with the…

  • Contemporary South African Ceramics Get Star Billing In Strauss & Co Sale

    As part of its commitment to developing new collectors, Strauss & Co is proud to announce a focus on contemporary South African ceramics in its forthcoming NORTH/SOUTH sale. A vital medium with a rich history, Strauss & Co has devoted an entire session to showcasing the best examples of South African ceramics in a session…

  • Nelson Makamo’s Study Of Youth Tops Strauss & Co’s October Online Sale

    Johannesburg contemporary artist Nelson Makamo confirmed his status at auction when his work Girl in a Yellow Dress emerged as the highest-value lot at the conclusion of Strauss & Co’s October online-only auction. Makamo’s vivid 2018 watercolour and charcoal study sold to an online bidder for R222 775. The eight-session sale of collectable art, decorative arts, textiles…

  • Nelson Makamo’s Among The Artistry In Strauss & Co’s Spring Auction

    Strauss & Co’s October online-only auction, which is now open and runs until 8pm on Monday 19 October, offers a cornucopia of pleasures. The lot offerings encompass collectable art, jewellery and accessories, and fine wine. The substantial art inventory encompasses drawings, prints, paintings, bronzes and beaded textiles produced by a host of collectable artists ranging from…

  • From Venice To Virtual: Strauss & Co’s Sale Features Acclaimed Contemporary Artists

    Works by acclaimed artists Wim Botha, William Kentridge, Misheck Masamvu, Athi-Patra Ruga, Penny Siopis and Portia Zvavahera – artists who have all exhibited at the prestigious Venice Biennale – form part of the extensive contemporary art offering from Strauss & Co’s forthcoming winter Live Virtual sale, due to be held over three days from 26…

  • Strauss & Co July Sale Climaxes With Impressive Collection Of Art

    Strauss & Co is pleased to announce details of its high-quality offerings from its forthcoming virtual auction, which will be led by auctioneers in studios in Johannesburg and Cape Town and live-streamed through Invaluable.com over three consecutive days in late July. The sale commences on Sunday 26 July with a session devoted to fine wines from three…

  • Honouring Youth Day With Visual And Performing Arts

    Nelson Mandela famously said that art is understood by everyone, has the power to transcend times of division, and lift the spirits and morale of those who experience it. To celebrate Youth Day this year, Norval Foundation, in partnership with Strauss & Co, will bring the performing arts and the visual arts together.  SA Youth…

  • Battiss, Pierneef, Preller and Stern Lead Strauss & Co’s May Sale

    Travel was central to the life and work of Walter Battiss, JH Pierneef, Alexis Preller and Irma Stern, four important twentieth-century moderns whose work forms the core of Strauss & Co’s superb art offering to be auctioned online on Monday, 11 May. The change in format of Strauss & Co’s autumn sale of important South…

  • From Sash To Siopis: Strauss Sale Celebrates South African Art History

    A historically important painting by Penny Siopis forms part of a remarkable consignment of work by former staff and students of the University of the Witwatersrand on offer at Strauss & Co’s upcoming live sale, due to take place on Monday 11 November at 7pm in Johannesburg.  Established in 1947, the fine arts department at…

  • Strauss & Co’s October Results Bode Well For The Pierneef Market

    JH “Henk” Pierneef demonstrated his enduring appeal at Strauss & Co’s R55-million Spring sale, held in Cape Town on 7 October, achieving a total of R9.65 million from nine lots sold. The top lot, a monumental study of interlaced camelthorn trees in a landscape near Thabazimbi, sold for R2.73 million. The results marked a welcome…