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Over a period of the past three years, the Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation (JCAF) has embarked on a process of profiling women artists with the aim of repositioning art, its practice and history through the …
The Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation (JCAF) announces’ Kahlo, Sher-Gil, Stern: Modernist Identities in the Global South’. The exhibition features the works of three seminal women artists, Frida Kahlo, Amrita Sher-Gil and Irma Stern, together in …
Lot 348: Irma Stern, Dakar Woman. Oil on canvas, 59 x 50cm. R 7 000 000 – 9 000 000 Strauss & Co is pleased to announce details of Figuration: Past and Present, a specialist …
Exhibition exploring Figuration in Contemporary African Art starts the year for Strauss & Co Figuration is a powerful conceptual thread linking historical, traditional, modernist, and contemporary art in Africa. Strauss & Co’s first offering of …
NORTH/SOUTH Live and Virtual Auction will be taking place 8-11 November 2020 Irma Stern, Swazi Girl. Oil on canvas laid down on board, 51,5 x 39cm. Estimate: R 3 000 000 – 4 000 000. …
Irma Stern marine landscape leads Strauss & Co’s offering of rare and high-value lots Read Article
Ever-increasing global interest in art from Africa is changing the art market. To meet the growing demand, Aspire has partnered with Paris-based house Piasa, to introduce an Africa-focused auction that presents some of the best …
Aspire & Piasa collaborate for an unprecedented sale of African art Read Article
Strauss & Co Johannesburg Auction – 20 May 2019 Strauss & Co, the world’s foremost auction house for South African art, is delighted to announce details of its forthcoming Johannesburg sale at the Wanderers Club …
Strauss & Co sale highlights how artist-teachers have shaped SA art Read Article
A vivid floral still life by South Africa’s foremost painter, Irma Stern, was the top lot at Strauss & Co’s R50-million grossing spring sale in Cape Town, selling for R9.1 million. The sale, Strauss & …
Single-owner collections snapped up by collectors at Strauss & Co spring sale Read Article
Important collections form bedrock of Strauss & Co’s Spring sale A commanding selection of works from single-owner collections, including a museum-quality Irma Stern still life, Namibian landscapes by Adolph Jentsch and an important Japanese satsuma …
In the early hours of April 14th 2013, 23-year old Nokuphila Kumalo was brutally beaten to death in the Woodstock suburb of Cape Town, South Africa. She was fatally assaulted outside the Tollgate Industrial Centre …
