{"id":7627,"date":"2025-10-31T14:08:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T14:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/?p=7627"},"modified":"2025-10-31T14:08:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T14:08:45","slug":"strauss-co-partners-with-art-auction-east-africa-to-bolster-secondary-market-for-east-african-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/2025\/10\/31\/strauss-co-partners-with-art-auction-east-africa-to-bolster-secondary-market-for-east-african-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Strauss &amp; Co partners with Art Auction East Africa to bolster secondary market for East African art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Strauss &amp; Co partners with Art Auction East Africa to bolster secondary market for East African art<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Strauss &amp; Co, Africa\u2019s leading auction house, and Danda Jaroljmek, Director of Art Auction East Africa, are pleased to announce details of&nbsp;<em>Art Auction East Africa | Strauss &amp; Co<\/em>, a new two-part auction of rare and important art from East Africa and beyond. The main event is a 65-lot live-virtual sale of modern and contemporary art, to be held at Circle Art Gallery, Victoria Square, Riara Road, Nairobi, on Wednesday, 5 November 2025. Running alongside it is a timed-online sale of works on paper, which concludes the same day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The auction is led by rare works from across East Africa including a work by the distinguished Tanzanian painter, diplomat and academic Sam Ntiro,&nbsp;<em>Working in the Fields<\/em>, a 1970s oil painting depicting a lush rural landscape (estimate KSh 900 000 \u2013 1 300 000 \/ US$ 6 967 \u2013 10 064).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Collectors of celebrated Ugandan painter Geoffrey Mukasa will have an opportunity to bid on three scarce works, including the mixed-media pieces&nbsp;<em>Boy Kneeling<\/em>&nbsp;(1998\/2005) and&nbsp;<em>Still Life<\/em>&nbsp;(2007\/08), each estimated at KSh 1.2 \u2013 1.5 million \/ US$ 9 290 \u2013 11 610.&nbsp;\u201cThe quality of the works by Msangi, Mukasa and Ntiro, viewed together with top-notch works by Cyrus Kabiru,&nbsp;Justus Kyalo and Beatrice Wanjiku, underscore the breadth of artistic practices across East Africa over the past six decades,\u201d says Danda Jaroljmek, Director, Circle Art Agency, who established&nbsp;Art Auction East Africa&nbsp;in 2013 as a platform to cultivate a secondary market for East African artists working during the era of decolonisation and independence.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7628,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7627\/revisions\/7628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}