Strauss & Co will return to Shepstone Gardens for the 2026 edition of RMB Latitudes annual art fair, from 22 – 24 May. The theme for this year’s art fair is: Oasis. Learn more about Strauss & Co’s involvement, exhibiting booth and upcoming events on the VIP programme.
Our exhibition booth will be on view at Stand A11 on the Mezzanine Level at Shepstone Gardens, offering select highlights from our flagship Day and Evening sales and providing a glimpse into historic achievements and the development of South Africa’s secondary art market.
Our VIP Programme will take place in our Johannesburg offices (89 Central Street, Houghton) featuring a diverse offering of events. Join us on Saturday for a specialist-led walkabout of our gallery space, followed by an exciting panel discussion led by Dan Corder on Modernism in South African Art. Then on Sunday, join Jo Voysey for an Art Class for children aged 3 years and up (booking essential), followed by a specialist-led walkabout.
Strauss & Co will be open for viewing Saturday and Sunday, 23 - 24 May, from 9am - 4pm.
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René Lalique glass are masterful pieces that balance form and function, and are the defining highlight of the online auction, 100 Years: Lalique, Silver and Art from the collection of Vera Dubin.
The sale boasts several sought-after pieces produced only during the revolutionary designer’s lifetime. The Gros Scarabées vase (Lot 6), a rare pre-war closed model, is distinguished by its bold relief of scarabs in rich amber, while the Domrémy vase (Lot 21) is notable for its unusual silver collar and delicately rendered thistles.
Together with his opalescent ‘Formose’ vase (Lot 1) and its swirling carp motif, these sculptural vessels hold enduring appeal a century on and exemplify the bond between Art Deco and the natural world.
Discover the full auction offering and catalogue by visiting our website, linked in bio, and register to place your bid.
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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/BK46W
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The furniture and ceramics on offer in Deep Roots: Selected Works from Stephan and Carmen Welz were assembled over a lifetime by one of South Africa's most legendary auctioneers, whose aesthetic education began in childhood in a home where Irma Stern and Walter Battiss were frequent houseguests.
The furniture consignment reflects Welz's deep appreciation for period furnishings, offering a 14-seater dining-room table, military and naval chests, Cape chairs, a writing bureau, and more. The ceramics range from blue-and-white porcelain and flat-back Victorian figures to oriental plates and vases. Together, these decorative items are curated into intimate room displays by Wilhelm van Rensburg at Strauss & Co's Houghton gallery.
Browse the full Deep Roots catalogue and register to bid via the link in our bio.
VIEWING TIMES
Weekdays: 9am – 4pm
Weekends: 23 and 24 May, 9am – 4pm
📍 Strauss & Co, 89 Central St, Houghton, Johannesburg
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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/fgKPv
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‘Magnificent Jewels, Africa’ has arrived 💎 Strauss & Co’s landmark live virtual jewellery auction is now open for browsing and bidding online.
Featuring rare diamonds, exceptional coloured stones, vintage treasures, and contemporary luxury. Discover this significant offering of 74 fine jewellery pieces 💍
Browse the full catalogue and register to bid via the link in our bio.
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Magnificent Jewels, Africa
• Live Virtual Auction | Strauss & Co, Johannesburg
Tuesday, 9 June 2026 at 7pm
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Link in bio: https://zurl.co/73w5V
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An invitation to look closer... Discover artistic freedom and human expression, revealed through abstraction.
Complementing the flagship Evening Sale, the online-only Day Sale includes a focus on painterly abstraction in South Africa. Featuring leading exponents of non-figurative painting from across the decades, including: Cathy Abraham, Jake Aikman, Bill Ainslie, Kevin Atkinson, Armando Baldinelli, Esther Mahlangu and Durant Sihlali, alongside sculptures by Jackson Hlungwani, Peter Schütz and Usha Seejarim.
Browse the full catalogue and register to bid via the link in our bio. The sale closes in staggered increments online Tuesday, 26 May 2026 from 2pm.
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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
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With our flagship Johannesburg Auction Week (25 – 27 May) on the horizon, we have partnered with The Corder Report (@dancorderonair ) to bring you something special. 🎙️
Tune in for our sponsored segment featuring a deep dive into the stories, artists, and defining moments that have shaped South Africa’s secondary art market. From iconic works to landmark auction results and incredible artwork stories.
Watch the above full clip on YouTube today.
In addition, one lucky listener stands a chance to win the coveted art book The Sculptures of Sydney Kumalo and Ezrom Legae, A Catalogue Raisonné, valued at R4 000. Head to the podcast on YouTube, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts to find out how to enter.
Join us in our Johannesburg office on Saturday, 23 May 2026 at 12pm for a panel discussion led by Dan Corder, focusing on Modernism in South African Art.
• Strauss & Co, 89 Central Street, Houghton, Johannesburg
🔗 RSVP Here: https://zurl.co/tLYAl
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A seated woman was a compelling motif that sculptor Sydney Kumalo frequently revisited. From 1959 to 1970, the artist created six different versions of this form. The present lot, conceived in 1959, is the earliest iteration, and is particularly significant, especially rare and important.
Discover the compelling story of this magnificent sculpture, feautred on the Evening Sale, as Dr Alastair Meredith speaks to the work and its history.
Did you know? Strauss & Co is currently doing a giveaway in collaboration with the Corder Report (@dancorderonair ) where a lucky listener can win a copy of the coveted artbook, The Sculptures of Sydney Kumalo and Ezrom Legae, A Catalogue Raisonné. Tune in to the Corder Report podcast (YouTube/Spotify/Apple Podcasts) to find out how to enter, and listen to short snippets of South African art history through our sponsored segment on the show.
To browse the full Evening Sale live auction catalogue, and to register to bid on the auction, visit our website (linked in bio).
To watch more stories of select lots from the Evening Sale, visit our YouTube channel.
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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/HVA3f
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This is the Colour Me series by Berni Searle, one of the most significant and celebrated bodies of work in South African art history.
The Colour Me series, created between 1998 and 2000, saw Searle photographed with her body outlined or adorned in different coloured spices, materialised in life-size digital prints. The coloured spices allude to the racial classifications imposed under apartheid, and also to the movement of both spices and slaves during colonial regimes.
As a mixed-race person growing up during apartheid in South Africa, Searle was categorised as “Coloured”. This was a label she later rejected and challenged through her art. In the present work, she undermines this very languaging and system of categorisation by inhabiting every colour at once, refusing the taxonomy that sought to define her.
It was at the Cairo Biennale in 1998/9 that Searle first exhibited the work to international audiences, winning a UNESCO/AICA Award and propelling her into the global art world. Nearly three decades later, Searle’s self-portraiture currently features in the main exhibition of the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, In Minor Keys, curated by Koyo Kouoh.
On offer in our flagship live Evening Sale auction, taking place in Johannesburg on 26 May 2026. Visit our website to browse the works and to register to bid.
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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/HVA3f
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Dr Vera Dubin was born in Dvinsk, Latvia, in 1925. She arrived in South Africa at the age of one, and from the very beginning, her character announced itself. At seven, she wrote to South African artist Hugo Naudé seeking to buy one of his paintings with money she had raised from her classmates to brighten their classroom.
She qualified as a doctor at the University of Cape Town in 1948, one of only two women in her graduating class, going on to specialise in dermatology across both government hospitals and private practice. Art and medicine were never separate pursuits for Vera.
With her husband Abe, she travelled widely and built a collection of exceptional depth and discernment, centred on pre-1945 René Lalique glass, European silver, and paintings by South African and European artists including Francis Bacon, Jean Welz, Andrew Verster and Rodolphe Théophile Bosshard.
Her cultural legacy extended far beyond her own walls. She led the Friends of the Durban Art Gallery, serving as its honorary life president, and in 1982 founded the Friends of Music bringing world-renowned musicians to Durban and nurturing emerging local talent. She was awarded the Paul Harris Fellowship by Rotary International in recognition of her contributions.
Dr Vera Dubin passed away on 24 August 2025, at the age of 100 — a milestone she had always vowed to reach.
Her collection is now offered as a single estate sale. Browse 100 Years: Lalique, Silver and Art from the Collection of Vera Dubin via the link in our bio.
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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/Ulx3i
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It's May Auction Season! 🔨
And of course I have a favorite...
Deborah Bell, Las Meninas/Caesura
R600 000 - 800 000
Deborah Bell references the famous and mysterious master Deigo Velasquez's work "Las Meninas" in this painting. A work nearly every art historian is fascinated by and here Bell brings it to life in her own way. Removing all the figures, creating an almost airy space that just draws you in.
She references the iconic Infanta in her white dress in one of the paintings hanging on the wall, as well as Michelangelo’s 'Creation of Adam'. The other paintings references her own works while a figure standing in the door alludes to transcendence which is a common theme for the artist.
The painting featured in the Everard Read 2015 exhibition 'Dreams of Immortality'
A painting we can talk and write about endlessly, I am really enjoying this piece hanging in our gallery. Currently open for viewing.
Auction: 26 May 2026, Johannesburg
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Strauss & Co is pleased to announce the details of a single-owner auction of modern and contemporary art, Cape furniture, and ceramics assembled by the legendary South African auctioneer Stephan Welz and his wife Carmen Welz.
The sale Deep Roots: Selected Works from Stephan and Carmen Welz (Wednesday, 27 May 2026) includes a large consignment of paintings, drawings and prints by Welz’s father, the acclaimed modernist painter Jean Welz, as well as artworks by Irma Stern, Cecil Skotnes, JH Pierneef, Hugo Naudé, Freida Lock, Dorothy Kay, Karel Nel, Strat Caldecott, and more.
Visit our website, linked in bio, to browse the full auction offering and to register to place your bid.
VIEWING TIMES
Weekdays: 9am – 4pm
Weekends: 23 and 24 May, 9am – 4pm
📍 Strauss & Co, 89 Central St, Houghton, Johannesburg
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Deep Roots: Selected Works from Stephan and Carmen Welz
• Live Virtual Auction | Johannesburg
Wednesday, 27 May 2026 at 4pm
REGISTER, BROWSE & BID
Link in bio: https://zurl.co/U8RTG
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Open for browsing and bidding, Strauss & Co’s flagship Evening Sale offering of modern and contemporary art presents a knock-out selection of exceptional works by some of the most important names in South African art history.
Discover works by the likes of Penny Siopis, George Pemba, Gerard Sekoto, Irma Stern, William Kentridge, Sydney Kumalo, JH Pierneef, Ezrom Legae, Berni Searle, Walter Battiss, Cecil Skotnes, Anton van Wouw, Vladimir Tretchikoff, and many more.
Visit our website, linked in bio, to browse and register to bid.
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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/7WgMR
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