Strauss & Co’s marquee live-virtual auction event will be taking place Tuesday, 28 March at 7pm. A stellar mix of modern and contemporary art, spotlighting the sustained contribution of South African women artists:
Strauss & Co’s marquee live-virtual auction event will be taking place Tuesday, 28 March at 7pm. A stellar mix of modern and contemporary art, jewellery, silver, furniture and fine wine will lead up to an evening sale of spectacular important art, spotlighting the sustained contribution of South African women artists.
The lineup also includes a watercolour by French artist Marie Laurencin, best known for her delicate depictions of young women.The opening lot of this much-anticipated sale is Maggie Laubser’s expressionist composition, painted shortly after the artist’s return to South Africa from Germany in 1924.
“But, in a country with a strong tradition of travel and landscape pictures, women have also asserted their right to move freely to make work. Our in-sale focus on South African painters who explored East Africa includes two important works by Freida Lock and Irma Stern, both produced in Zanzibar. Among the contemporary works, Sethembile Msezane and Thania Petersen are represented by photographic self-portraits that innovatively speak to contemporary social issues.
Sumner’s Paris work is one of two pieces by this artist from the Stellenberg Collection, which takes its name from a grand Cape Dutch homestead founded in the late 1600s in what is today upper Kenilworth. The other is Sumner’s watercolourStrauss & Co will also be handling works from the Naspers Collection, including Irma Stern’s. This lot from Stern’s golden age of the 1940s is socially important.
Also from 2015 and informed by the social protests that gripped the country’s tertiary institutions, Thania Petersen’sCollectors can view these extraordinary works in the catalogue for Cape Town Auction week at Strauss & Co’s public gallery at Brickfield Canvas, 35 Brickfield Road, Woodstock, Cape Town, from 10am to 5pm until 28 March 2023.
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