A dazzling collection of modern art belonging to the former owner of British soccer club Tottenham Hotspur is expected to fetch a record amount when it goes up for auction next month.
Paintings by Gustav Klimt, Henri Matisse, Egon Schiele, Amedeo Modigliani, Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud are among the dozens of masterpieces being sold by UK billionaire Joe Lewis and his daughter, Vivienne, at Sotheby’s in London in June.
Experts at the auction house estimate the collection will sell for more than £150 million ($204 million) overall. This would make it the most valuable single collection ever to be offered in London, Sotheby’s said in a press statement.
Highlights include Klimt’s 1902 full-length society portrait of Gertrud Loew (Gertha Felsőványi), which could sell for between £20 million ($27 million) and £30 million ($41 million). Schiele’s early piece “Danaë” –– painted when he was just 19 –– is likely to sell for somewhere in the region of £12 million ($16 million) to £18 million ($25 million), according the statement, as is Modigliani’s “Homme à la pipe (Le notaire de Nice).”
These are among the auction highlights that will be on public display at Sotheby’s headquarters in New York from this weekend until May 18.
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