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Irma Stern Helps South Africa’s Strauss Sell $7.3m

Strauss & Co broke a record for a South African auction with a 106m ZAR ($7.3m) total this week. As often is the case with South African art, five works by Irma Stern were among the top 10 lots and accounted for 39m ZAR ($2.7m) of the sale’s value. Alexis Preller’s Collected Images (Orchestration of Them…