SOME of the most valuable art works in the country, including three paintings by Jack B Yeats, one of which, A Race in Hy-Brazil, is worth an estimated €1million, was unveiled in Limerick this week.
AIB’s corporate art collection, which now forms part of the National Collection, will be exhibited in the city’s Hunt museum until August 11.
The 39 paintings — the top-end of the bank’s 1,000-strong art collection which is worth an estimated €10m — were acquired by AIB over 30 years with the advice of art historian Frances Ruane.
Most of the them were kept in the bank’s headquarters in Ballsbridge.
In 2102, AIB donated thirty-nine of its finest works to the State. The works are on loan to the Hunt Museum from the Crawford Gallery in Cork.
Painted in 1937, the oil painting A Race in Hy-Brazil captured Yeats’ loves of horses and gaelic myth.
