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Modigliani nude sets European auction record at London art sale

A London auction of artworks from billionaire Joe Lewis's private collection raised $392.6 million on Wednesday, led by an Amedeo Modigliani nude portrait that set a European auction record. The first sale featured 48 works by artists including Pablo Picasso, René Magritte and Gustav Klimt. Lewis, former majority owner of…

France 24

Rare masterpieces from former Tottenham FC owner's collection head to auction in London

The collection, belonging to billionaire and former Tottenham Hotspur owner Joe Lewis, features masterpieces by Modigliani, Klimt, Picasso and Freud.

Euronews

Ex-Tottenham owner sells art collection in blockbuster auction

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).

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Modigliani painting leads collection worth more than £200m being auctioned

The 48 works carry the highest estimate for any single-owner collection ever offered at auction in Europe.

Evening Standard

Lucian Freud subject says late painter was a ‘perfectionist’

Sue Tilley sat for the artist three times a week for approximately nine months as he painted Sleeping By The Lion Carpet.

Evening Standard

‘Big girls can do well’ Lucian Freud subject says as portrait could fetch £35m

The painting, Sleeping by the Lion Carpet, will go up for sale for the first time as part of Sotheby’s The Lewis Collection in June.

Evening Standard

Collection including masterpieces by Klimt and Schiele to fetch ‘up to £150m’ at auction

Collection comes from Joe Lewis and his daughter Vivienne, whose family owns Tottenham Hotspur

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Masterpieces by Klimt, Matisse and Freud set for London’s most valuable auction

Sotheby’s said collection of billionaire Spurs’ owner Joe Lewis and daughter Vivienne expected to fetch more than £150m in June sale

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