The National Gallery’s ‘Van Gogh: Poets And Lovers’ is marking its final weekend with an unprecedented 24-hour opening. The showcase has become the third most visited ticketed exhibition in the Gallery’s history, with 283,499 attendees from September 14, 2024 to January 7, 2025.
Tickets for the special overnight viewing on January 17 will be available from Thursday. This marks only the second time the National Gallery has remained open all night, with the first instance being the ‘Leonardo da Vinci: Painter At The Court of Milan’ exhibition in 2012.
Gallery Director Sir Gabriele Finaldi expressed his delight, stating: “I am delighted that over 200,000 people have visited Van Gogh: Poets And Lovers and we look forward to welcoming more people to the exhibition as it comes to its final weeks.”
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He added: “As part of our opening for the last weekend our visitors will have the rare and special opportunity to experience Van Gogh’s pictures during the night and early hours of the morning following in the footsteps of artists such as Freud, Bacon and Hockney, who came here during those times to take inspiration from the Gallery’s collection.”
This groundbreaking exhibition is the National Gallery’s first dedicated to Vincent Van Gogh and the first globally to highlight the artist’s creative reinterpretations, featuring over 60 works sourced from international museums and private collections. A comprehensive 90-minute film titled Exhibition On Screen: Van Gogh Poets And Lovers, directed by David Bickerstaff, will showcase the exhibition in UK cinemas, complete with interviews from art experts.
National Gallery members can enjoy free access to the exhibition, which runs until January 19.
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