Transcending Boundaries presents 111 works by artists from the Americas, Asia Pacific, British Isles and Europe consigned from various South African collections.
Celebrated impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s late work, Fruits , painted in 1912, will be a leading highlight of Transcending Boundaries, Strauss & Co’s live-virtual auction of modern and contemporary international art on October 25 in Cape Town.
The catalogue for Transcending Boundaries reflects the shifting tastes of generations of South African collectors who acquired international works of art from local dealers or during their travels. The auction includes editioned works on paper, high-value paintings by John Piper, Edward Seago, Joža Uprka and William Wyllie, a photograph by Fluxist pioneer Nam June Paik and a small consignment of sculpture, including a Jeff Koons edition.
Strauss & Co is the first auction house on the African continent to offer a work by Renoir, an artist with enduring appeal among collectors more than a century after his death in 1919. A Johannesburg collector acquired Fruits , a late-period triumph of colour and painterly energy, in the 1970s. A certifying authority in Paris recently authenticated the painting at Strauss & Co’s request. Fruits is estimated to fetch R2 – 3 million / $106 287 – 159 430.
Many of the artists in Transcending Boundaries have impeccable auction histories, including in South Africa. This extends to street artists like Banksy and Mr Brainwash, aka Thierry Guetta. In 2021, Strauss & Co sold French-born Los Angeles-based Mr Brainwash’s 2009 painting of pop icon Madonna for R1.024 million.
The preview and auction will take place at Strauss & Co’s premises in Brickfield Canvas, an innovation hub on the slopes of Table Mountain in Woodstock, on Thursday, 19 October 2023, 6 – 8pm.Get more information, or browse their e-catalogue here.
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