Leading auction house Strauss & Co is pleased to announce a special artist focus on two quintessential Cape painters, Bouscharain and Laubscher, in its forthcoming live virtual auction, due to take place on the 11th and 12th of October, 2021.
In 1997, when the illustrious Goodman Gallery moved into its new Johannesburg premises in Parkwood, it presented an exhibition composed of its leading artists, among them Willie Bester, Norman Catherine, Robert Hodgins, William Kentridge and Penny Siopis.
On 702, The Azania Mosaka Show
Strauss & Co is honoured to present a single-owner collection of 20th century ceramics from the Johannesburg collector Juanita Bird.
Thank you to all our clients and followers! The Johannesburg Strauss & Co. office gets together to reflect on the highlights of 2021 and to thank all our clients for a wonderful year.
Strauss & Co’s Decorative Arts department is delighted to announce its exciting spring programme of four live auctions for Cape Town Auction Week (18 – 21 September 2022).
Johannesburg – George Pemba and Gerard Sekoto, major historical painters who this year are posthumous debutantes at the 2024 Venice Biennale, were among the top-performing artists in Strauss & Co’s recent Evening Sale of Collectable Art, concluded on Tuesday, 28 May 2024. The virtual-live auction, the culminating event of a four-part auction season in Johannesburg, saw strong results achieved for works by William Kentridge and Irma Stern, respectively stars of the Venice Biennale in the 1950s and post-2000s.
Strauss & Co, South Africa’s preeminent auction house, successfully concluded its 2020 sales drive with an upbeat online-only auction of modern, post-war and contemporary art, decorative arts and fine wine. The auction netted a combined total of R7.4 million from 483 lots sold. The top-selling lot was an enigmatic quadriptych from 1995 by modernist painter Bettie Cilliers-Barnard, which sold for R234 500.
Strauss & Co. Senior art specialist and head curator Wilhelm van Rensburg highlights three Robert Hodgins works featuring in our May Live Virtual-Live Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art Auction.
Strauss & Co’s forthcoming June sale of modern, post-war and contemporary art, decorative arts and wine includes an impressive line up of paintings from two important corporate collections, one offering a unique overview of Cape winemaking and its traditions, the other gathering an important grouping of South African women botanical artists.
