STOP, IT’S HAMMER TIME
An impressive selection of work by SA artists will be on offer soon
If you’ve got the loot to invest in a work of art, you might want to get to the live Strauss & Co Fine Art Auction at Joburg’s Wanderers Country Club on June 4.
The firm’s latest catalogue, which landed at the FM recently, details 325 lots of paintings, sculptures and works on paper (both of the 20th century and the contemporary kind) that will be up for sale.
Here, in no particular order, are 15 stand-out pieces chosen by the Strauss & Co team that we should all know about — irrespective of our buying power.
Lot 233: Willem Boshoff, estimate R100,000-R150,000
,price Frank Kilbourn, Strauss & Co executive chair, was struck by the highly topical yet subtle sandand-wood wall sculpture, made in 2012. Boshoff surreptitiously introduced the four letters G, R, A and B into his “chopped-up”, unspoilt and uninhabited land, inevitably to be claimed and possibly converted into a futuristic city. The incorporated word “grab” is the “fine print” that strikes at the heart of the right to land, which is often contested the world over and now so intensely occupies the SA political discourse. The word pertinently implies the lack of discourse — the taking of land by force, a frequent feature in the history of the world.
Lot 210: Armando Baldinelli, 1908-2002, price estimate R50,000-R70,000
Bina Genovese, joint MD, selected an untitled