Strauss & Co, Africa’s leading auction house, and Danda Jaroljmek, Director of Art Auction East Africa, are pleased to announce details of Art Auction East Africa | Strauss & Co, 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.
The auction is led by rare works from across East Africa including a work by the distinguished Tanzanian painter, diplomat and academic Sam Ntiro, Working in the Fields, a 1970s oil painting depicting a lush rural landscape (estimate US$ 6,967 – 10,064).
Collectors of celebrated Ugandan painter Geoffrey Mukasa will have an opportunity to bid on three scarce works, including the mixed-media pieces Boy Kneeling (1998/2005) and Still Life (2007/08), each estimated at US$ 9,290 – 11 610.
“The quality of the works by Msangi, Mukasa and Ntiro, viewed together with top-notch works by Cyrus Kabiru, Justus Kyalo and Beatrice Wanjiku, underscore the breadth of artistic practices across East Africa over the past six decades,” says Danda Jaroljmek, Director, Circle Art Agency, who established Art Auction East Africa in 2013 as a platform to cultivate a secondary market for East African artists working during the era of decolonisation and independence.
