Fresh from the remarkable successes of its recent Johannesburg auction in November 2017, Aspire Art Auctions is lining up another top roster of high-quality fine art in its upcoming Summer sale.

Anything of value lurking in your attic? It might be worth your while having it appraised.

A painting reflecting the rebellious and playful spirit of artist Walter Battiss forms a centrepiece of a fine art and design auction in Johannesburg on November 21 and 22.

In South Africa, younger art buyers are growing into their collections, and are buying different types of art in many different media.

The daylong sale generated a turnover of R65 412 721, a solid result based on a value sell-through rate of 84.3%.

Prison inmates’ artworks are to be auctioned by Stephan Welz & Co. on October 10 as part of a project to fund the planting of 1 million orchids in the Western Cape over the next 20 to 30 years.

John Hume believes regulating the market will significantly reduce poaching…

Paintings from the art collection of South African literary luminary and anti-apartheid activist André P Brink go on auction by Stephan Welz & Co. in Cape Town on June 6 and 7.

The annual festival of pyjama cricket is upon us again as the world’s best prepare for a six-week slog around India. Here’s who struck gold… and who will be watching on TV with the rest of us.

The sale, scheduled to take place at the Wanderers Club on 7 November, includes a number of important works repatriated to this country from international collections, notably by Preller, Walter Battiss, Cecil Skotnes and Edoardo Villa.

A night of vigorous bidding at Strauss & Co’s s spring auction in Cape Town generated R58 million in sales, a record for the Cape Town office and the second highest individual sale result for South Africa’s leading auction house. The sale, which featured over 630 pieces, achieved an 82.5% sell-through rate, an achievement unmatched by rivals.

Leading auction house Strauss & Co’s forthcoming spring sale in Cape Town takes place on 10 October.

Irma Stern’s captivating 1943 portrait, Portrait of Freda Feldman in Basuto Hat, is back in South Africa and up for auction in Johannesburg this month, but the story of this piece and its artist is a touching one of friendship and support.

If you have a spare couple-of-million lying around, you could have been in the running to buy Robert Hodgins’ Bad Man with Great Threads. The roguish piece sold yesterday for R2,4 million – more than three times the pre-sales estimate.

The Important South African and International Art, Decorative Arts and Jewellery exhibition is coming to the Vineyard Hotel in Cape Town, this month. Treasures once part of the historic Vergelegen estate in Somerset West will be sold by Strauss & Co in their much anticipated auction on 14 March.

As the prices at auction for contemporary art begin to climb, we ask if international buyers are starting to notice? We wonder if South African art is the next place for buyers with big cheque books to make their mark.

Strauss & Co’s summer auction on 9 November at the Wanderers Club will include among its highlights an Italian casting of Anton van Wouw’s famous Dagga Smoker.

The star of the show at Strauss & Co’s winter sale held last night at the Wanderers Club in Johannesburg was undoubtedly JH Pierneef, when a new all-time world record was set by his previously unseen painting, Farm Jonkershoek with Twin Peaks Beyond, Stellenbosch.

A collection of more than 150 South African weapons and artefacts from the 19th century will go on auction in Britain this month.