Joe Lewis, Ex-Tottenham Owner, Auctions £200 Million Art Collection from £250 Million Superyacht

FORMER Tottenham owner Joe Lewis is selling £200million worth of art from his superyacht.

Lewis, 89, is said to be worth a staggering £5.13billion after going from East Ender to supremo trader.

Joe Lewis is selling part of his art collection worth a whopping £200m Credit: AP The art had been on display in his £250 superyacht Credit: The Sun

And some of that extreme wealth went into buying from Sir Alan Sugar.

But .

The epic boat is dubbed as his floating home and office and even features a full-size padel court.

But it has also been decked out with expensive artwork – some of which Lewis is now selling.

His collection – and some from – of approximately 50 paintings acquired over the last 50 years will go under the hammer at Sotheby’s in London next month.

And there are suggestions it could fetch double the current British record of £101m for the sale of a single-owner collection.

Four of his paintings went for a combined £36m in March.

But the upcoming collection contains far more prized possessions – including pieces from Matisse and Picasso.

Francis Bacon’s Studies for a Self-Portrait could go for up to £12m Credit: Instagram / sothebys Edgar Degas’ sculpture of a ballet dancer student is among the collection Credit: Getty Lucian Freud’s Woman in a Grey Sweater will go under the hammer Credit: Instagram / sothebys

There is also Gustav Klimt’s 1902 Bildnis Gertrud Loew painting, which is estimated to fetch around £30m.

Oliver Barker, the chairman of Sotheby’s Europe, told The Times : “The range and quality show the incomparable ambition and sophistication of Joe as a collector, and also the assertiveness and boldness that he has always displayed as a currency dealer.

“Rather late in his life, it will reveal Joe to have been one of the greatest art collectors the world has known.”

Lewis’ full collection was at one stage said to be worth around £1bn.

Aviva is a mightily impressive yacht Credit: Abeking Rasmussen At 98m long, it is the length of a football pitch Credit: Abeking Rasmussen The boat is usually moored in the Bahamas Credit: Abeking Rasmussen It is the fourth yacht Lewis has owned called Aviva Credit: Abeking Rasmussen

And he is still seemingly enjoying the good life on board his boat which is regularly moored in the Bahamas – after a .

Lewis’ 98m-long vessel is the fourth yacht named Aviva built specifically for him.

It replaced the 68m Aviva III, with both designed by Reymond Langton and built by German builder Abeking & Rasmussen.

The current version was completed in 2017 and registered initially to the Cayman Islands.

In 2022, Lewis’ majority .

Then in 2024, he .

The billionaire as part of a “brazen” multi-year scheme that was said to have earned his inner circle millions.

He was fined £4m but was spared time behind bars because his “life would be at serious risk” due to his health issues.