LONDON — Works by artists including Picasso, Magritte and Klimt, amassed by the ex-owner of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, head to auction this month with a total sales estimate of £200 million (8.7 million baht).
They were collected by Joe Lewis, an 89-year-old British billionaire, who transferred his majority stake in the London football club to a family trust in 2022 and is now worth £5.8 billion, according to The Sunday Times Rich List.
A total of 48 works from the Lewis Collection will go on sale, including a once-scandalous nude painting by Amedeo Modigliani with an estimate of over £45 million and a bronze sculpture of a dancer by Impressionist artist Edgar Degas with an estimate of £18 million to 25 million.
