Multiple wine records were smashed at Strauss & Co’s live virtual auction in Johannesburg, led by a 200 year-old bottle of Grand Constance 1821, which fetched a staggering R967 300.
Strauss & Co invites collectors to view its latest consignment of modern, post-war and contemporary art, decorative arts and fine wine in its October online-only auction.
A delightful bounty of 2012 vintage wines, historical English and Cape country furniture and eye-catching portraits by South African painters offered by Strauss & Co in a trio of online-only auctions yielded excellent results. The three specialist auctions, which ended at staggered intervals on 14 March 2022, attracted interested buyers from a dozen countries and netted a combined total of R7.3 million.
Strauss & Co has partnered with five of SA’s most respected fine wine producers to offer Africa’s first fine wine Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) on auction from 18-25 April.
A round of applause greeted the R10 469 600 sale of Irma Stern’s Dakar Woman following suspenseful rivalry between two collectors vying by telephone for this important painting.
Strauss & Co’s decorative arts department is pleased to announce details of its current online-only sale of Asian art, due to end on 25 April 2022.
On the centenary of Irma Stern’s debut solo exhibition in South Africa and the half-centenary of the opening of the Irma Stern Museum in Cape Town, Strauss & Co is proud to be hosting a single-artist auction entirely devoted to this illustrious artist.
Strauss & Co is pleased to announce its participation in the 2022 instalment of August Art Month.
Strauss & Co October Online-Only Auction
Pangolins have been on the planet for 80 million years. They survived a mass extinction, 66 million years ago, when an asteroid collided with Earth, wiping out 75% of earth’s animals, including non-bird dinosaurs. Now, a pangolin is poached every five minutes, making them the most poached mammal on earth, threatened with extinction at the hands of man, and the title of ‘the most poached mammal on the planet’.At Strauss Art Auctioneers, a curated collection of mainly pangolin-themed artworks and sculptures, aims to raise funding for the African Pangolin Working Group.
