Strauss & co - 2015 Mid-year Review

At a Cape Town auction in March 2015, onetime enfant terrible Ed Young registered an artistic respectability of sorts when his exuberant super- realist portrait of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu went under the hammer for R852 600 (high estimate R550 000); and in June 2015 latter- day avant-stylist Athi-Patra Ruga cleared R181 888 on a R80 000 high estimate, in both cases achieving world records for the artists. Ed Young Arch Sold R852 600, 16 March 2015 RECORD FOR THE ARTIST 9