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New world record price for rare piece by exiled South African artist
The climactic final sale of Johannesburg Auction Week also saw strong results achieved for modernist painting from the 1940s.
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Bulumko Mbete selected as the 2023 Cassirer Welz Award winner
Now in its 12th year, the award has given emerging artists an opportunity to showcase their talents to a broader…
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Gerard Sekoto’s work celebrated in Curatorial Voices auction
An in depth look at the works by Gerard Sekoto is included in Curatorial Voices, where we learn more about…
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Continued strength of African art market in 2022
Africa’s leading art auction house, Strauss & Co, announces 2022 sales totaled R354M, the second highest annual total to date.
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Alfred Thoba: Black modernist maverick
The eight Thoba paintings form part of The Oliver Powell and Timely Investments Trust Collection. Colour, graphic ingenuity and emotional…
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Strauss & Co presents four works on paper spanning William Kentridge’s prolific career
In advance of William Kentridge’s large-scale exhibition at London’s Royal Academy (RA) later on this month, Strauss & Co is…
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Durban visual artist Mondli Mbhele wins 2022 Sasol New Signatures
Sasol has been the proud sponsor of the New Signatures competition for 32 years, which was established by the Association…
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Strauss & Co devotes single-artist auction to celebrated artist William Kentridge
Strauss & Co is currently hosting two exciting auctions that explore the impact and legacy of South Africa’s art scene…
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From Zoo Lake to Zanzibar: Strauss & Co’s specialist sale maps Pierneef’s travels
Few artists have captured the public imagination quite like the revered landscape painter and traveller J. H. Pierneef (1886-1957), whose…
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Pierneef, a top-ten African artist at auction, gets his own sale at Strauss & Co in July
Following on the runaway success of its inaugural series of single-artist sales devoted to artists John Muafangejo, JH Pierneef and…
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Artist: How to choose the right artwork to enter
Winning the Sasol New Signatures Art Competition is something every up-and-coming artist strives for. “Every year we receive hundreds of entries, but…
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Alberton North artist moves to different genre
Alberton North artist Neo Ntsukunyane recently released his new EP titled Another One.
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