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 pounds ($267 million).
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 pounds ($7.75 billion), according to The Sunday Times Rich List.
A total of 48 works from the Lewis Collection will go on sale, including a painting by Amedeo Modigliani with an estimate of over 45 million pounds ($60 million) and a bronze sculpture of a dancer by Impressionist artist Edgar Degas with an estimate of 18 million-25 million pounds ($24 million-$33.5 million).
Lewis also bought paintings by artists of the Vienna Secession movement such as Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, modernist and surrealist works by Rene Magritte and Pablo Picasso.
The most recent works are paintings by British artists Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon.
