Lucas Sithole’s Charging Afrikander set the auction room alight at Strauss & Co’s May sale when fierce bidding drove the price way above the estimates of R300 000 – 500 000 to achieve a record of R946 900.

Three major works by Gerard Sekoto feature on Strauss & Co’s upcoming auction on 7 November 2011 at the Country Club Johannesburg in Woodmead. Sekoto’s international status as a major African artist is affirmed by Dr Christine Mullen Kreamer, Deputy Director & Chief Curator, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution: Gerard Sekoto is a very important figure in the art history of African modernism. He sensitively portrays the dignity of daily life in black communities in paintings rich with color and infused with a light that seems to glow from within. His works suggest a sense of calm, despite the challenges that this artist must have endured under apartheid. His international reputation was hard-fought and justly earned.