Strauss & co - Review 2018

Looking Past the Established Names William Kentridge’s star continues to rise at market as much as in theworld. Fêted inLondonandNewYork for his “fiercelybeautiful” historical pageant of music, The Head & the Load , Kentridge had two lots in the top 20, earning a combined R5 687 600. The top Kentridge lot was the museum-quality drawing Deep Pool (1996), from his series Colonial Landscapes, which sold for R3 414 000. Vladimir Tretchikoff, Erik Laubscher and Robert Hodgins each contributed a work to the balance of the top 20 lots by value. William Kentridge , Deep Pool, from the series Colonial Landscapes Sold R3 414 000, 4 June 2018 “Erik Laubscher is asserting himself as a force to be reckoned with,” said Frank Kilbourn in March, shortly after Strauss & Co established a new world record price for the artist with the R2 273 600 sale of the bold Still Life of Coffee Pot and Fruit from 1952. Two sales – one in Cape Town, the other in Johannesburg – encapsulated the dynamism and energy of the year under review. 19