Without affecting the activities and services that the National Bank of Mexico (Banamex) offers its users, the company Citigroup announced its sale, which left the bank's art collection and its architectural heritage available to the highest bidder.

The collection, founded in June 1884, consists of more than 4,000 pieces of art, including easel paintings, sculptures, furniture art, murals, to name a few. The cultural value of this heritage is practically invaluable since within the 5 centuries of history that the works cover, there are artists of the size of Miguel Cabrera, Dr. Atl, José María Velasco, María Izquierdo, Remedios Varo, Leonora Carrington, among others. others. For its part, among the properties under Banamex that will also be available on the market, are valuable buildings dating from the 16th and 18th centuries, such as the Casa de Montejo in Mérida, Yucatán and the Palacio de Iturbide in Mexico City, respectively.

Fortunately, Banamex does not consider the separation of the pieces among the sale options as a possibility, according to Alberto Gómez Alcalá, corporate director of Institutional Development, Economic Studies and Communication of Citibanamex, they intend for the collection to be sold in its entirety. , which leaves a fairly positive prognosis for the future of all this cultural heritage, since the division of the collection would complicate its presence and availability to the public, considering that many works, or perhaps the most important ones, enter private collections that have closed their doors to the public, preventing interaction with a larger number of spectators.

However, both the cultural venues and the art collection have not yet found potential buyers, therefore, we are awaiting the decisions that will be made about their future location and under what conservation program they will remain, as well as the accessibility and the type of interaction that the public can have with them.

Sources The Day, The Universal.