{"id":57706,"date":"2026-07-01T10:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T14:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/?p=57706"},"modified":"2026-06-30T15:52:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T19:52:50","slug":"the-lewis-collection-at-sothebys-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2026\/07\/the-lewis-collection-at-sothebys-london\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lewis Collection at Sotheby&#8217;s London"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_57707\" style=\"width: 214px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/LewisModigliani-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57707\" class=\"wp-image-57707 \" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/LewisModigliani-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"A portrait of a nude woman sitting upright in bed covering herself.\" width=\"204\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/LewisModigliani-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/LewisModigliani-669x1024.jpg 669w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/LewisModigliani-768x1176.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/LewisModigliani-1003x1536.jpg 1003w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/LewisModigliani-1337x2048.jpg 1337w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/LewisModigliani-scaled.jpg 1672w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-57707\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Nu assis au collier<\/em> by Amedeo Modigliani<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">On Wednesday, June 24th, Sotheby\u2019s hosted a prelude to their Modern &amp; Contemporary evening sale featuring pieces from the collection of British businessman Joe Lewis. With his daughter Vivienne, Lewis assembled a collection estimated at a billion dollars, consisting mainly of nineteenth- and twentieth-century works by modern masters such as Caillebotte, Degas, Schiele, and Bacon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">There was no doubt that the evening\u2019s star would be one of the two works by Amedeo Modigliani. <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Nu assis au collier<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> was created around 1918 and passed through several private collections before Lewis purchased the work at Christie\u2019s in May 1985. Sotheby\u2019s specialists describe the work as \u201cone of the most subtle and intimate\u201d of the artist\u2019s female nudes. Despite being an incredibly modern take on the subject, Modigliani also shows his admiration for the past masters. The pose is reminiscent of the <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Venus pudica<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, or the modest Venus, in which the subject is nude yet attempts to cover herself with her arms and hands, a motif originating in classical sculpture and later emulated by <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/0\/0b\/Sandro_Botticelli_-_La_nascita_di_Venere_-_Google_Art_Project_-_edited.jpg\/1280px-Sandro_Botticelli_-_La_nascita_di_Venere_-_Google_Art_Project_-_edited.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Botticelli<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/f\/f6\/Peter_Paul_Rubens_-_Venus._Mars_and_Cupid.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Rubens<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, and <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/c\/c5\/Edouard_Manet_-_Olympia_-_Google_Art_ProjectFXD.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Manet<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. The woman also wears a coral necklace, similar to those worn in <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/6\/6e\/Davide_Ghirlandaio_-_Selvaggia_Sassetti.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">several works of Renaissance portraiture<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. The work offered at Sotheby\u2019s is one of three paintings depicting the same subject in different poses; one is at <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pubhist.com\/works\/06\/large\/amedeo_modigliani_nude.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">the Guggenheim Museum in New York<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, and <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pubhist.com\/works\/06\/large\/amedeo_modigliani_nude_coral_necklace.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Oberlin College owns the other<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. Despite failing to reach its \u00a345 million estimate, the Modigliani maintained its title as the sale\u2019s star, achieving a final bid of \u00a341.5 million (or \u00a348.2 million \/ $54.6 million w\/p). This places it in the top ten most expensive works by the artist ever sold at auction, and the most expensive Modigliani painting sold since his 1919 portrait <\/span><em><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2025\/10\/modernites-at-sothebys-paris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Elvire en buste<\/span><\/a><\/em><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2025\/10\/modernites-at-sothebys-paris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> sold at Sotheby\u2019s Paris<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> last October for \u20ac26.98 million w\/p.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_57708\" style=\"width: 127px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/LewisKlimt.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57708\" class=\"wp-image-57708\" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/LewisKlimt-88x300.jpg\" alt=\"A portrait of a young woman in white and purple dress.\" width=\"117\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/LewisKlimt-88x300.jpg 88w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/LewisKlimt-301x1024.jpg 301w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 117px) 100vw, 117px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-57708\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Portrait of Gertrud Loew<\/em> by Gustav Klimt<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The second place lot, one of three with a minimum estimate exceeding \u00a320 million, was <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Portrait of Gertrud Loew<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> by Gustav Klimt. The Loew family was incredibly important to Klimt\u2019s career and to the Vienna Secession in general as prominent collectors. Painted in 1902 when the subject was nineteen years old, specialists believe the portrait was commissioned by the sitter\u2019s mother, Sophie, as a gift for her father, Dr. Anton Loew. The colors used seem rather monochromatic, reminiscent of James McNeill Whistler\u2019s 1862 portrait popularly known as <\/span><em><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pubhist.com\/works\/05\/large\/james_whistler_symphony_white_girl_026.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Symphony in White<\/span><\/a><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. However, in the 1890s and into the 1900s, Klimt often employed a reserved color palette, especially in his portraits. This can be seen in similar paintings of <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/c\/c5\/Gustav_klimt%2C_serena_pulitzer_lederer%2C_1899.JPG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Serena Pulitzer Lederer<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> and <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/4\/40\/Gustav_Klimt_053.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Hermine Gallia<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. Bidding lasted just over six minutes. The painting exceeded its \u00a330 million high estimate, with Oliver Barker bringing the hammer down at \u00a331 million (or \u00a336.16 million \/ $40.9 million w\/p).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">And finally, for something slightly more recent, the third-place lot that evening was <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Sleeping by the Lion Carpet<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> by Lucian Freud. The painting shows a corpulent nude woman reclining in a leather chair. Freud created several nude paintings of this particular subject, a woman named Sue Tilley, whom he used as a model from 1993 to 1996. For a portrait, the work is enormous, slightly larger than life-size, measuring nearly seven-and-a-half feet by four feet. Freud frequently returned to nude figure painting throughout his career, with many, including the specialists at Sotheby\u2019s, describing the Tilley paintings as \u201cthe pinnacle of this endeavor, the zenith of his engagement with the trope.\u201d The art critic Martin Gayford wrote of the Tilley portraits, \u201cA body as extreme as this gives [Freud] painterly scope that other bodies might not offer. If a nude of ordinary proportions might be likened to a parish church, Sue is a whole baroque cathedral of flesh, real and fantastic at the same time (just as the rug in the background is simultaneously prosaic and exotic)\u201d. The painting is both <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/1311\/1141572914_eb85a620f2_b.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">the Venus of Willendorf<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> and <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/images.fineartamerica.com\/images\/artworkimages\/mediumlarge\/2\/le-reve-pablo-picasso.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Picasso\u2019s <\/span><\/a><em><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/images.fineartamerica.com\/images\/artworkimages\/mediumlarge\/2\/le-reve-pablo-picasso.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">La R\u00eave<\/span><\/a><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. There was considerable interest in the piece on Wednesday evening, with several interested parties bidding through the phone banks. The hammer eventually came down right on the \u00a325 million low estimate (or \u00a329.26 million \/ $33.1 million w\/p), making it the fifth most expensive work by the artist ever to sell at auction. Another one of the Tilley paintings, <\/span><em><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/miro.medium.com\/v2\/resize:fit:720\/format:webp\/0*LQWrEuSNgBLZKgSL.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Benefits Supervisor Sleeping<\/span><\/a><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, sits right above it in the number four position, having sold at Christie\u2019s New York in May 2008 for $33.6 million w\/p.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_57709\" style=\"width: 211px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/d7hftxdivxxvm.cloudfront.webp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57709\" class=\"wp-image-57709 \" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/d7hftxdivxxvm.cloudfront-176x300.webp\" alt=\"A portrait of a large, nude woman sleeping in a leather chair with a carpet hanging in the background.\" width=\"201\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/d7hftxdivxxvm.cloudfront-176x300.webp 176w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/d7hftxdivxxvm.cloudfront-601x1024.webp 601w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/d7hftxdivxxvm.cloudfront-768x1309.webp 768w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/d7hftxdivxxvm.cloudfront-901x1536.webp 901w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/d7hftxdivxxvm.cloudfront.webp 910w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-57709\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Sleeping by the Lion Carpet<\/em> by Lucian Freud<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In these blue-chip, single-collector sales, it\u2019s very rare that any lot sells for anywhere close to double its high estimate. But in the Lewis collection, there was one work that proved so popular that it achieved over triple what Sotheby\u2019s initially expected. <\/span><em><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/d61eb5d\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1425x2000+0+0\/resize\/4096x5749!\/quality\/90\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fbf%2F37%2F94fe4539459b962fb3656e8118ea%2Fl26900-8lz4s-t1-04-a.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">La Belle promenade<\/span><\/a><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> by the Belgian surrealist Ren\u00e9 Magritte features one of the artist\u2019s most iconic motifs: the man in the bowler hat. Most famously seen in <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/external-content.duckduckgo.com\/iu\/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fblogs-images.forbes.com%2Fchaddscott%2Ffiles%2F2018%2F10%2F12.-Son-of-Man-1200x1575.jpg&amp;f=1&amp;nofb=1&amp;ipt=44c1f2ec8b6ec4295e11756f326136e40ea7fb205da0b72cd51bd107fc8876ed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">the 1964 painting <\/span><\/a><em><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/external-content.duckduckgo.com\/iu\/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fblogs-images.forbes.com%2Fchaddscott%2Ffiles%2F2018%2F10%2F12.-Son-of-Man-1200x1575.jpg&amp;f=1&amp;nofb=1&amp;ipt=44c1f2ec8b6ec4295e11756f326136e40ea7fb205da0b72cd51bd107fc8876ed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Son of Man<\/span><\/a><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, the figure was also extensively used in a series in which his silhouette <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/external-content.duckduckgo.com\/iu\/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.pinimg.com%2F736x%2F3f%2F5d%2Fef%2F3f5def970e96cc6ea79ff42aaa560638--magritte-paintings-ren%25C3%25A9-magritte.jpg&amp;f=1&amp;nofb=1&amp;ipt=7320e32ceb7b943d550b64d494e1298aa09625422ac9c51651bc7c7250efe0f4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">offers a window onto an image or scene<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> against an unrelated background. In the work offered at Sotheby\u2019s, the silhouette features a bright, cloudy sky, which stands in contrast to the deep, verdant background. Skies, stone walls, and bells are also elements that Magritte frequently included in his work. The combination of all these motifs makes it unsurprising that the painting did very well on Wednesday evening, surpassing the \u00a34 million high estimate and hammering at \u00a313.5 million (or \u00a316 million \/ $18.15 million w\/p).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Of the twenty-five lots that crossed the block on Wednesday, eight sold within their estimates, giving Sotheby\u2019s specialists a 32% accuracy rate. An additional twelve lots (52%) sold above their estimates, while three (12%) sold below. Only a single lot, Edgar Degas\u2019s 1880 painting <\/span><em><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/external-content.duckduckgo.com\/iu\/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.meisterdrucke.uk%2Fkunstwerke%2F1260px%2FEdgar_Degas_-_La_Loge_1880_-_(MeisterDrucke-839595).jpg&amp;f=1&amp;nofb=1&amp;ipt=dcc1fa449d98efc6f2cf33938f46fbd6db09d8dc9b041b9aa00e2f7576dd0a5b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">La Loge<\/span><\/a><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, went unsold, giving the auction a 96% sell-through rate. The auction\u2019s success led to an impressive total of \u00a3249.35 million (or \u00a3296.32 million \/ $335.34 million w\/p), just shy of the \u00a3253.6 million pre-sale high estimate. This makes the Lewis collection one of the most expensive sales of the year, behind <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2026\/05\/the-newhouse-collection-at-christies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">the Newhouse Collection<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> and the 20th Century Evening Sale at Christie\u2019s on May 18th. It is also the most expensive single-collector auction ever sold in Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, June 24th, Sotheby\u2019s hosted a prelude to their Modern &amp; Contemporary evening sale featuring pieces from the collection of British businessman Joe Lewis. With his daughter Vivienne, Lewis assembled a collection estimated at a billion dollars, consisting mainly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2026\/07\/the-lewis-collection-at-sothebys-london\/?contemporary=N\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":57707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[840,189,634,197,207,20,15,120,606],"class_list":["post-57706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rehs-galleries","tag-20th-century-austrian-art","tag-20th-century-british-art","tag-20th-century-european-art","tag-20th-century-italian-art","tag-auction-news","tag-auction-results","tag-comments-on-the-art-market","tag-modern-art","tag-sothebys"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.9 (Yoast SEO v27.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Lewis Collection at Sotheby&#039;s London - Rehs Galleries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"On June 24th, Sotheby\u2019s hosted a prelude to their Modern &amp; 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