Strauss & Co is proud to announce important appointments to its Board and team of art specialists bolstering the rock solid legacy of founding managing director, Stephan Welz, who passed away at the end of last year.
Archived: StraussOnline’s July auction now live
There’s something to tempt everyone on StraussOnline’s July 2016 auction which opened on 8 July 2016. Featuring more than 450 lots, the auction house showcases its extensive offering of contemporary and 20th century artworks, silver, ceramics, furniture and books.
Archived: Strauss & Co launches new improved website
Strauss & Co ensures art enthusiasts worldwide stay connected with new upgraded highly personalised mobile-friendly website
Archived: Ten Cent raffle ticket wins half a million Rand artwork
Draw breath for the one shilling Dagga Smoker set for a high of almost half a million Rand at Strauss & Co auction
Archived: Rare Portrait of Childhood by Peter Clarke at Strauss Auction
In a long career spanning 85 years, Peter Clarke produced remarkably few portraits of children making this Portrait of a Young Boy a rare find.
Archived: Strauss Spring Auction Set to Surprise and Delight
Strauss & Co’s Spring auction on 12 October at the Vineyard Hotel in Newlands promises a veritable cornucopia of rare and beautiful South African and international art from Irma Stern, JH Pierneef, Pieter Wenning, Jean Welz, Walter Battiss and Erik Laubscher to Robert Hodgins, William Kentridge and Penny Siopis. Younger artists include Georgina Gratrix, Athi-Patra Ruga, 2015 winner of the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Performance Art, and Mohau Modisakeng. An early hand-coloured print by Colin Richards is likely to appeal to discerning collectors. International works range from seventeenth-century portrait paintings to works by Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse and Diego Rivera.
Archived: Erik Laubscher: Toast of the Town
By Sean O’Toole. Rejection can be motivating force in an artist’s life. Take the definitive “no” that prefaced the start of much-loved painter Erik Laubscher’s prodigious career. In 1946, Tulbagh-born Laubscher, whose work is now highly sought after, knocked on a door at the Michaelis School of Fine Art and enquired from a secretary about his application to study at this prestigious Cape Town art school.
Archived: Randlord’s furniture appears on market 65 years later
Items which emerged from the sale in 1942 of The Contents of Vergelegen, the property of Sir Lionel and Lady Phillips will be offered for sale at Strauss & Co, in Cape Town, on 12 October 2015. These include two 18th century aquatints of Cape Town, originally purchased for 3 guineas each (R4 000 – 6 000), and an ornate George III giltwood cartel clock (Edward Clarke, London) inscribed on the reverse ”Mrs L Phillips” (R25 000 – 30 000). Also with the same provenance is a George III style linen press which bears an inventory label for Sir Lionel Phillips Bart, Tylney Hall, his former home in England (R15 000 – 20 000).
Archived: Property from the Rodwell House Collection
Property from the Rodwell House Collection to be included in Strauss & Co’s Auction of Important South African and International Art, Furniture, Decorative Arts and Jewellery, Cape Town 12 October 2015
Archived: R2 600 000 for chest of drawers
Last night a chest of drawers sold for close on R2 600 000 at Strauss & Co’s auction in Cape Town drawing gasps from the packed saleroom. This important 18th century chest of drawers, which was formerly part of the collection of Vergelegen, was hotly contested between two international buyers on the telephone.