Smurfit Art Collection

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Smurfit Art Collection is a collection of art work by the businessman Michael Smurfit. The Smurfit art collection contains work by such artists as Jack Butler Yeats, [1] Louis le Brocquy, Sir John Lavery, Donald Teskey, Peter Collis, Martin Mooney, Norah McGuinness, and Anne Madden. [2] The collection contains 500 pieces built up over 20 years of collection. [3]

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