Dear Clients and Friends, I hope that you and your families are in good health and secure in these troubling times. I would like to personally thank you for your continued support of Strauss & Co, and for joining us on our dynamic digital journey over the course of 2020.
Important Collection of original works by 19th-Century Artist Thomas Bowler Goes Up for Auction
Strauss & Co’s March ART online auction features a single artist session focusing exclusively on 19th-century British artist and landscape painter Thomas Bowler. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for collectors to acquire pieces directly from a collection curated by Dr. Frank Bradlow, Bowler’s biographer and a luminary in Africana collectables.
Archived: Strauss & Co 2019 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 return to form for Pierneef, whose prices had been diluted by a recent fire sale by a distressed collector.
The 2014 Vintage plays the starring role in the Strauss & Co March wine auction
Strauss & Co’s March Timed Online Wine auction is themed around the 2014 Vintage. One of the most important measures of great wine is that it should be age-worthy, that it should become more pleasurable and more interesting to drink with time in the bottle. Just how well do modern-era South African wines perform as they get older?
Archived: The History of Harcroft House
The history of Harcroft is bound up in an extraordinary love story which began in 1936, when British born Charles Louis Rycroft flouted the conventions of the time to marry a divorcee, Muriel Susan Elizabeth Parsons. Harcroft Estate, situated on the banks of the Ayer Tawar river in Perak, Malaysia, was a rubber plantation comprising the estate and the factory which Charles’s father, George Henry Rycroft, and his business partner, John Hartley, had purchased in 1919. Merging their two surnames, it was registered as Harcroft Rubber Estates Ltd.
But is it Surrealist? London audiences will finally get to see and debate Alexis Preller’s audacious symbolist paintings
In this centenary year of the founding of Surrealism, Strauss & Co will host Alexis Preller: Surreal Discovery, our first official London selling exhibition dedicated to the revered South African painter Alexis Preller. Much lauded in his home country, Preller was frequently and controversially associated with Surrealism, a revolutionary European art and literary movement founded
Archived: An icon resurrected: Lucas Sithole 2019 highly important buffalo sculpture to go on sale
An exceptional assembly of bronzes by three trailblazing modernist sculptors – Ezrom Legae, Lucas Sithole and Edoardo Villa – lead Strauss & Co’s robust offering of sculpture at its forthcoming live sale on Monday, 11 November in Johannesburg.
Strauss & Co is a vital contributor to Cape Town’s pulsating month of summer art activities
• Strauss & Co successfully handles five auctions in February
• Top price achieved for J.H. Pierneef street scene of Tulbagh
• Solid prices realised for Ablade Glover, Esther Mahlangu and Zandile Tshabalala
• Exhibition for Alfred Thoba and another edition of Art Business Conference
Archived: From Sash to Siopis: Strauss sale celebrates prominent role of Wits University in 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 at their Houghton rooms, 89 Central Street.
Archived: Strauss & Co establishes four new world records at its Johannesburg sale
Celebrated contemporary artist William Kentridge affirmed his place among auction stalwarts JH Pierneef and Alexis Preller at Strauss & Co’s R37-million summer sale in Johannesburg. The packed evening sale, which started just before the welcome arrival of overdue rain, saw the auction house establish four new world records for artists, notably Ezrom Legae, whose African Goat, cast at the Vignali Foundry in Pretoria in 1990, sold for R1.7 million.
