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Tretchikoff's 'Lady from the Orient' sets new auction record
Weekend Argus on Saturday
|May 31, 2025
STRAUSS & Co, Africa's leading auction house, set a new world record for Russia-born South African painter Vladimir Tretchikoff with the sale of his 1955 portrait Lady from the Orient for R31892000/US$1776017/£1314891.
The iconic painting was sold to an anonymous telephone bidder after a dramatic flurry of 89 bids, narrowly beating a determined in-room contender at the live auction in Johannesburg.
The final price, inclusive of commission and taxes, comfortably eclipses the previous world record for a Tretchikoff work, set at £982050 in March 2013 at a London auction for Chinese Girl (1952).
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