£1 = R16
Works by some of the best-known names in South African art and a selection of decorative arts across a wide range of disciplines combined to produce a bumper late summer auction at Strauss and Co (12% buyer’s premium) in Cape Town.
The auction, held on March 6 and numbering just under 600 lots, achieved 88% sold by volume to generate R73.4m (£4.6m), the highest total for a single sale in South Africa, beating the auction house’s own previous high of R66.8m set back in 2010.