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29/05/2026

Watch as a new world record is set at auction by Strauss & Co for Penny Siopis with the landmark work, Al Fresco.

In the flagship live Evening Sale auction in Johannesburg, the monumental 1990 painting incorporating collaged imagery of mining activity, sold to a telephone bidder for R3 431 250 / $209 038, establishing a new world auction record for the Cape Town painter.

Another record set in the evening was for Gerard Sekoto’s Horse and Cart, Sophiatown. Painted circa 1939, the work attracted spirited bidding before selling for R5 261 250 / $320 525, setting a new South African auction record for the artist.

These are the moments where expertise meets passion, and as Africa’s leading art auction house, Strauss & Co sincerely thanks all bidders and underbidders from the night. To discover all auction results, visit our website, linked in bio.

Discover the full Strauss & Co presentation at FynArts Festival Hermanus 2026 | 6 – 14 June In a new initiative and for ...
28/05/2026

Discover the full Strauss & Co presentation at FynArts Festival Hermanus 2026 | 6 – 14 June

In a new initiative and for the first time a live broadcast by Fine Music Radio celebrating the arts from the Hermanus FynArts Festival is made possible courtesy of Strauss & Co.

A focal point of Strauss & Co’s’ participation this year is a museum quality exhibition titled “Time and Tide: Expressions of Hermanus and the Coastal Overberg” to be shown at the FynArts Gallery. Curated by Strauss & Co art specialists, the exhibition will highlight local art heritage and emerging talent from Hermanus and nearby areas.

A talk by Ian Hunter, senior art specialist and regional representative – Mossel Bay to Gqeberha – will give further insight into the exhibition. Ian will share his passion and extensive knowledge of the artists and history of the region.
As in previous years Strauss & Co will again host a valuation day for clients in the area.

Visit our website, linked in bio, to find out more about our programme of presentations at FynArts Festival Hermanus 2026.
To purchase tickets, visit www.hermanusfynarts.co.za

Against the background of Strauss & Co’s online auction Eastern Cape Echoes: Storms River to Port St Johns, Art Club Cap...
26/05/2026

Against the background of Strauss & Co’s online auction Eastern Cape Echoes: Storms River to Port St Johns, Art Club Cape Town hosts the panel discussion, Scratching the Surface: An evolution of the Eastern Cape landscape, seen through the lens of its best-known artists.

The discussion is facilitated by Jo Voysey (Art Education Specialist), bringing together Ian Hunter (Senior Art Specialist) and Christopher Till (Museum Director and Curator) to trace the aesthetic lineage of the Grahamstown Group (or Eastern Cape artists) and their fundamental engagement with the painted surface.

They will touch on the influence of Brian Bradshaw, whose arrival at Rhodes University sparked a departure from traditional representation. Under his instruction, the young artists began to explore the physicality of the painted surface, treating the canvas as a site of material experimentation. This radical (for the time) approach moved the artists to develop their individual visual languages that continued to evolve over time.

The viewing is curated by world renowned interiors and furniture designer, Justin van Breda.

To RSVP, visit our website, linked in bio (https://zurl.co/5GmSF)
• Tuesday, 2 June 2026 | 6 - 8pm
Strauss & Co, 2nd Floor, Brickfield Canvas, 35 Brickfield Road, Woodstock, Cape Town

Notes from a Collector: Frank Kilbourn → Swipe to watch the full video (or visit our YouTube channel)A chance meeting wi...
26/05/2026

Notes from a Collector: Frank Kilbourn → Swipe to watch the full video (or visit our YouTube channel)

A chance meeting with four iconic artists: The story of how Frank Kilbourn became a collector, and how it all started with Edoardo Villa, Walter Battiss, Armando Baldinelli and Cecil Skotnes.

Featured works from our Johannesburg May auction week, 25 - 28 May 2026, including the Day Sale and Evening Sale offerings.

Join us in our Johannesburg offices for the flagship Evening Sale, taking place this evening from 7pm (Tuesday, 26 May 2026). Visit our website, linked in bio, to register to bid.

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Day Sale: Modern and Contemporary Art
• Online Auction
30 April – 26 May 2026

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Link in bio: https://zurl.co/BBAl6

Evening Sale
• Live Virtual Auction
Tuesday, 26 May 2026 at 7pm
Strauss & Co, 89 Central Street, Houghton, Johannesburg

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Link in bio: https://zurl.co/hwQL2

Notes from a Collector: Frank Kilbourn → Swipe to watch the full video A chance meeting with four iconic artists: The st...
26/05/2026

Notes from a Collector: Frank Kilbourn → Swipe to watch the full video

A chance meeting with four iconic artists: The story of how Frank Kilbourn became a collector, and how it all started with Edoardo Villa, Walter Battiss, Armando Baldinelli and Cecil Skotnes.

Featured works from our Johannesburg May auction week, 25 - 28 May 2026, including the Day Sale and Evening Sale offerings.

Join us in our Johannesburg offices for the flagship Evening Sale, taking place this evening from 7pm (Tuesday, 26 May 2026). Visit our website, linked in bio, to register to bid.

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Day Sale: Modern and Contemporary Art
• Online Auction
30 April – 26 May 2026

REGISTER, BROWSE & BID
Link in bio: https://zurl.co/BBAl6

Evening Sale
• Live Virtual Auction
Tuesday, 26 May 2026 at 7pm
Strauss & Co, 89 Central Street, Houghton, Johannesburg

REGISTER, BROWSE & BID
Link in bio: https://zurl.co/hwQL2

26/05/2026

In 1994, William Kentridge directed the music video for Another Country, the title song from popular musical ensemble Mango Groove’s third album. Billboard praised the album’s title song as ‘one of the most beautiful songs to emerge from the transition to democracy’.

The music video was produced in Kentridge’s signature stop-motion style; however, it differs from his career-defining films in that it features a live actor. Mango Groove’s lead singer, Claire Johnston, is the only member of the band who appears in the video, which is set in Kentridge’s abstracted and tumultuous Johannesburg. While poignant images of a violent past flash across billboards and drive-in screens, there is also a promise of clarity and renewal in the video’s clear, starry skies and cleansing rains.

Three decades later, this drawing from Another Country is a valuable document of creative collaboration during a fraught political time and the defiant spirit of hope the song held as South Africa awaited its first democratic elections in 1994.

Featured in the Evening Sale live auction offering, taking place in Johannesburg on Tuesday 26 May 2026 at 7pm. Register to bid through our website, linked in bio.

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Evening Sale
• Live Virtual Auction
Tuesday, 26 May 2026 at 7pm
Strauss & Co, 89 Central Street, Houghton, Johannesburg

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Link in bio: https://zurl.co/nmQSZ

Strauss & Co invites you to join us for ArtClub at the Rupert Museum in Stellenbosch, on Fynbos Through Artists' Eyes: T...
25/05/2026

Strauss & Co invites you to join us for ArtClub at the Rupert Museum in Stellenbosch, on Fynbos Through Artists' Eyes: The creation of the Grootbos Florilegium.

Join us as Chris Lochner, curator and resident artist of Grootbos Florilegium, takes us on an evocative exploration of our rich floral heritage and the evolutionary adaptations of plants. He will trace the rich history of botanical art and highlight examples from South Africa’s own botanical heritage. Chris will also give us his personal insight into the creation of the Grootbos Florilegium.

The talk coincides with the Museum Saturday programme of the Rupert Museum and the latest instalment of the Artist Spotlight Series featuring the work of Dr Marion Arnold (b1947).
Highlights of Strauss & Co upcoming auctions will be shown.

ART CLUB
Saturday, 30 May 2026 | 11:00 - 12:00
Rupert Museum, Stellentia Road, Stellenbosch
R50 per ticket

🔗 Purchase tickets: https://zurl.co/LeAyw

Textile art has long been dismissed as a female pastime. In the hand woven tapestries of Malawian artist Billie Zangewa,...
25/05/2026

Textile art has long been dismissed as a female pastime. In the hand woven tapestries of Malawian artist Billie Zangewa, practice turns that dismissal into power. By using fabric and sewing, Zangewa explores identity, domesticity, motherhood and the radical, persistent force of self-love.

Friday Afternoon in Notting Hill, featured on our Evening Sale live auction, is characteristic of her most celebrated work. This intimate and luminous scene of urban life in London, rendered in silk, is where the personal and the political collide in a subtle tableaux of social interaction and belonging.

Zangewa’s work is currently featured in In Minor Keys, the main exhibition of the 61st Venice Biennale.

Register to bid on the live auction taking place in Johannesburg tomorrow, Tuesday 26 May 2026 at 7pm, by visiting our website, linked in bio.

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Evening Sale
• Live Virtual Auction
Tuesday, 26 May 2026 at 7pm
Strauss & Co, 89 Central Street, Houghton, Johannesburg

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Link in bio: https://zurl.co/hwQL2

Discover a century of living and a lifetime of looking through the collection of Dr Vera Dubin.At seven years old, Vera ...
25/05/2026

Discover a century of living and a lifetime of looking through the collection of Dr Vera Dubin.

At seven years old, Vera Dubin wrote to South African artist Hugo Naudé asking to buy one of his paintings with money she had raised from her classmates, to brighten their classroom. It was the first act of a lifetime devoted to art.

Nearly a century later, the collection she built with dedication and an unerring eye closes today, Monday 25 May 2026 from 2pm online. The offering includes impeccable René Lalique glass made before 1945 (when the René Lalique himself still oversaw every piece leaving his atelier), finely worked European silver, and European and South African paintings and works on paper.

Browse the full offering via the link in our bio and place your bid before the auction closes.

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100 Years: Lalique, Silver and Art from the collection of Vera Dubin
• Online Auction
30 April – 25 May 2026

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Link in bio: https://zurl.co/OOIJq

In 1974, two artists looked at the same man and saw something entirely different. This is Walter Battiss, seen and self-...
24/05/2026

In 1974, two artists looked at the same man and saw something entirely different. This is Walter Battiss, seen and self-seen.

Jean Welz, the Austrian-born modernist and lifelong friend, created a portrait of Walter Battiss as he knew him with the quiet intimacy of someone who had shared meals, conversations, time, and a deep mutual regard for the act of making art.

That same year, Battiss turned the brush on himself to create this phenomenal self-portrait, a work that is at once confrontational and exceptionally detailed. He signed it not with his own name, but as Alpha Batt 155, presenting a riddle and provocation on the legacy of language and the artist’s own career.

Swipe to explore both portraits and the remarkable story they tell together.

Self-Portrait Alpha Batt 155 by Walter Battiss is on offer at the Evening Sale: Modern and Contemporary Art. Portrait of Walter Battiss by Jean Welz is on offer at Deep Roots: Selected Works from Stephan and Carmen Welz.

Browse both catalogues and register to bid, link in bio.

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Evening Sale
• Live Virtual Auction
Tuesday, 26 May 2026 at 7pm
Strauss & Co, 89 Central Street, Houghton, Johannesburg

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Link in bio: https://zurl.co/hwQL2

Deep Roots: Selected Works from Stephan and Carmen Welz
• Live Virtual Auction | Johannesburg
Wednesday, 27 May 2026 at 4pm

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Link in bio: https://zurl.co/WhCy3


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