Modigliani nude sets European auction record at London art sale

A London auction of works from billionaire Joe Lewis's private art collection sold for three hundred ninety-two point six million dollars, led by an Amedeo Modigliani nude that set a European auction record. According to France 24, the sale featured forty-eight works including paintings by Picasso, René Magritte, and Gustav Klimt. Lewis, the former majority owner of Tottenham Hotspur, transferred his stake to a family trust in twenty twenty-two.

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