Strauss & Co Presents June ART – Diverse Selection Features Artworks Across Price Points 

June ART continues Strauss & Co’s commitment to making quality South African art accessible to collectors across price ranges, presenting a selection of modern and contemporary artworks.

The sale includes a compelling series of photographs by acclaimed South African photographer Paul Alberts. These works, including Rhodes, Eastern Cape, 1984 (R 30 000 – R40 000) and Wilhemina Ramateva, Cyferkuil (sic), Northern Province 1997 (estimate  R 30 000 – R40 000), are an important form of social documentary detailing the country’s history.

Other highlights in the sale include Deborah Poynton’s Portrait of Guy (R 120 000 – R180 000), an intimate image from her 2007 body of work “The Grip of Circumstance” exhibited at Warren Siebrits in Johannesburg; Patrick Bongoy’s The Edge of Tomorrow ( R 30 000 – R50 000), a sculpture made with found rubber and metal tubing, highlighting violent economic extraction and erosion and Norman Catherine’s Bathtub with Shark (estimate R 60 000 – R80 000), a bronze sculpture with a black and verdigris patina, in line with the artist’s fascination with sharks as a motif and symbol.

June ART celebrates South Africa’s rich artistic heritage with several works from the Rorke’s Drift Art and Craft Centre, including the tapestry Woman Picking Flowers (estimate R 25 000 – R35 000) made from pure karakul hand-spun wool and linen, as well as  Jesus and His Disciples (estimate R 20 000 – R30 000) designed by Philda Majozi and woven by Eliza Xaba. In the sale, historical significance is further represented with works by South African impressionists Hugo Naudé and Gregoire Boonzaier, known for his expression of Cape impressionism, alongside works by masters such as Jacob Hendrik Pierneef, Edoardo Villa, Frans Oerder, Louis Maqhubela and Ezrom Legae. Contemporary artists featured in the sale include Raymond Fuyana, Themba Khumalo, Blessing Ngobeni, Gerhard Marx and Mongezi Ncaphayi, whose practices traverse still life, landscape and abstraction. A selection of Linn Ware ceramics adds sculptural dimension to the auction, featuring elegant vessels that showcase South African ceramic artistry through the makers from Olifantsfontein, admired for their artistic and historical value.

June ART offers both seasoned collectors the opportunity to acquire significant pieces from South Africa’s artistic landscape.

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