 At his specific recommendation, this collection was placed under the curatorship of the South African National Gallery in Cape Town, where it first went on display in 1947.Numbering over 400 items, including paintings, prints and drawings, the ""Sir Abe Bailey Bequest"" is the largest bequest held at the South African National Gallery to this day.It also constitutes one of the largest collections of British sporting art held by any public art museum in the world.