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Millions paid for South African Art & Antiques
8 Oct 2009
If the price of art and antiques is anything to go by, South Africa is fast coming out of it’s recession.
At an auction conducted in Cape Town tonight by Strauss & Co., a new record price of R1 058 million was achieved for an 18th century Cape coromandel buffet, a new record price for a piece of South African furniture at auction. A pair of Georgian silver wine coolers by Paul Storr, sold for R1.6 million.
It was however South African paintings that stole the show, with four paintings by Irma Stern selling for over R16 million, the highest price being for a portrait which fetched R5.57 million. Other artists whose paintings sold for over 1 million were Wolf Kibel and Jean Welz each realising R1.225 million respectively.
The auction realised a total of R39 million.
2009 Press Releases
December
- 2 Dec 2009 Strauss & Co breaks R 100 million now, South Africa's leading art auction house
- 5 Dec 2009 The Icon Project
October
- 1 Oct 2009 Internationally acknowledged art expert joins South Africa's leading Fine Art Auction House
- 8 Oct 2009 Millions paid for South African Art & Antiques
- 13 Oct 2009 Blue chip art auction house at the helm of the market in its first year of operation.
September
- 10 Sep 2009 Arresting 18th century Cape Buffet, a welcome surprise for collectors
- 10 Sep 2009 Powerful study of an Athleteby Fanie Eloff
- 11 Sep 2009 South African Auction confirms strengths in the art market
August
- 15 Aug 2009 Important British, Continental and South African Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture - Edoardo Villa
- 15 Aug 2009 Strauss & Co. presents a bigger all embracing auction of South African Art
March
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