Irma Stern

‘I don’t know how to keep quiet,’ says Cape Town artist Thania Petersen of the Israel-Gaza war

South African artworks on a Strauss & Co auction are set to fetch some hefty prices

In a first for South Africa, a Johannesburg museum is showing work by the pioneering woman artists

A season of auctions, exhibitions and books devoted to Irma Stern upends perceptions of her stuffy legend

A walk through the Norval Foundations inspires thoughts on frames as anchors, thresholds and art

These artworks would sell well online, but lesser-known artists might struggle. Photos: Courtesy Sanlam Art Collection

Athi-Patra Ruga’s latest exhibition, ‘Interior/Exterior/ Dramatis Personae’, takes his characters on transformative journeys

The artist, who draws on varied inspirations from baking to Irma Stern, is now studying in Florence

An art expert discovered the Irma Stern painting, once sold to help fund Nelson Mandela’s legal defence, being used as a noticeboard in a London flat.

Artists Lien Botha and Clementina van der Walt have staged an intervention in Irma Stern’s house that interacts directly with her art in the museum.

Four of five paintings stolen from the Pretoria Art Museum have been found on a bench in a cemetery in Port Elizabeth, police said on Tuesday.

The Democratic Alliance says the Tshwane metro had been repeatedly warned about the lack of adequate security measures at the Pretoria Art Museum.

The five paintings stolen from the Pretoria Art Museum in Arcadia included an Irma Stern, worth R9-million, and a Gerard Sekoto, worth R7-million.

Irma Stern’s painting "Arab" has been sold at an auction for R17.2-million – the second-highest price ever for a painting sold in South Africa.

Deciding what constitutes a South African heritage work of art seems to be a guessing game.