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- After the war, he settled in Dallas, where he and a fellow FBI agent, Richard A. Gump, founded their own law firm. This firm, known initially as Gump and Strauss, would eventually grow into the international law firm Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld. The many partners over the years included a high-profile defense attorney, William G. Hundley.
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Sep 14, 2016 · Bob, who began in sales in 1971 and became a Vice President of Sales in 2001, shared his personal experience with the brand he would later work for. As he tells it, he never forgot how wearing a pair of Levi’s® gave him the confidence he needed as the new kid in town.
Jul 1, 2015 · Strauss, who had no children, left the business to his four nephews. Nearly a century and a half later, Levi Strauss & Co. is one of the biggest brand names in apparel, available in 50,000 ...
Sep 7, 2020 · Strauss & Co was founded in 2008 by Dr Conrad Strauss and Elisabeth Bradley, along with Sotheby’s veteran and South African art expert Stephan Welz. They hosted their first sale of modern and contemporary South African art and decorative arts in 2009.
Robert Strauss (November 8, 1913 – February 20, 1975) was an American actor. He became most familiar in Hollywood films of the 1950s such as Stalag 17 (1953), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award in the category of Best Supporting Actor .
- About Strauss and Co
- South Africa’s Modern and Contemporary Artists
- IN/FORM: Exploring South African Sculpture
- A Tribute to Robert Hodgins
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- Strauss & Co’s Upcoming November 2022 Auctions
Strauss & Co are fine art auctioneers and art consultants offering a diverse annual program of hybrid offline and online auctions featuring South African art and wine as well as jewelry and more. They operate in both Joburg and Cape Town. The auction house was founded in 2008 by Dr. Conrad Strauss and Elisabeth Bradley, along with Sotheby’s veteran...
William Kentridge
Many of the artworks that I first recognized when I came in were from William Kentridge. He’s arguably one of the most recognized South African artists, (at least from my layman’s point of view). Kentridge has had 265 solo exhibits since 1979, the first of which was at the Market Theater here in Joburg. He currently has an exhibit running at the Royal Academy in London. His group exhibits total 715! I first encountered Kentridge’s work in Rome, when visiting my parents, in the neighborhood of...
Marina Abramović
Another familiar artist was Marina Abramovic. You may remember her from her performative art which included her and her boyfriend at the time walking along the wall of China in opposite directions to break up. Read more about that here. If you hadn’t heard about that, maybe you remember her 2010 exhibit at the New York Museum of Modern Art, where Abramović sat for eight hours a day in silence, at a table. Members of the public were invited to sit on the other end of her table and stare into h...
Beyond the Familiar
Besides seeing some familiar names, I also had to chance to learn about artists I hadn’t heard of before. Irma Stern (1894 – 1966) was a painter and avid traveler, visiting not only Europe, but also southern Africa, Zanzibar, and the Congo region, which was pretty unusual at the time for a woman! Her portrait of an urbanized sitter, an African Woman, is estimated at R5 – 6 million. The largest display of work is by Andrew Verster: Mural for a Durban Dining Room. This large painting was commis...
There will be 47 sculptures for sale at the auction. Two of the most notable artists were Job Kekana and Josephine Ghesa. The collection of Kekana’s works comes from a German immigrant couple who would send Kekana a monthly stipend. In return, Kekana would mail them one of his wooden busts. I loved his self-portrait, which includes a slightly droop...
In addition to the main collection, this auction features a curation of work from artist Robert Hodgins. Although Hodgins passed in 2010, his works only recently have been collected from his studio floor and framed for Strauss & Co. There are several works made in collaboration with Sarah Ballam, Deborah Bell, Kendell Geers, William Kentridge, Jan ...
How do the auctions go? Well, a Strauss and Co staff member shared that one of their latest auctions lasted until 1 in the morning! Crazy! You can visit in person or register to bid online here. Don’t have the money to drop R1 million on these works? I don’t either. You can still come, have a glass of wine, and watch others spend their money to get...
Modern and Contemporary Art, Part I
Live and Virtual Auction of the first set of paintings in the collection. 7:00pm Thu, 3 Nov 2022 View the catalog here.
Coats Family Cellar
The Coats Family Cellar is arguably the most prestigious fine wine collection ever offered in South Africa. It contains a deep collection of the world’s finest, most sought-after wines, spanning over 150 years. Collected over many decades, the cellar was imported from Ireland to South Africa via reefer. Each bottle within the Coats Family Cellar was authenticated by Michael Egan in August 2022 and given an ID number for tracking. 11:00am Sun, 6 Nov 2022 View the collection here.
IN/FORM: Exploring South African Sculpture
The 47-lot catalog for IN/FORM tracks various developments in three-dimensional artistic production – from modernist pioneer Anton van Wouw to contemporary artists Josephine Ghesa, Frances Goodman, and Angus Taylor. 7:00pm Monday, 7 Nov 2022 View the catalog here.
Robert Schwarz Strauss (October 19, 1918 – March 19, 2014) was an influential figure in American politics, diplomacy, and law whose service dated back to future President Lyndon Johnson's first congressional campaign in 1937.
Oct 2, 2023 · There is also a collection of six drawings by Robert Hodgins, all from the late artist’s estate. These include figure studies, nude studies and two works from his sought-after Ubu series, namely Ubu Pretre et Penitent (estimate R18 000 – R24 000) and Seated Ubu Figure (estimate R15 000 – R20 000).
