The National Gallery’s spectacular Van Gogh exhibition may soon be bidding the capital adieu, but it’ll most definitely be ending on a high. To mark the final weekend of the sold-out showthe National Gallery will be staying open all night longto ensure that as many people as possible can feast their eyes on the epic exhibition that’s been dubbed a ‘once in a century’ show.
Van Gogh: Poets And Lovers opened at the National Gallery back in September, and has been met with colossal demand. So much so that it’s become the gallery’s 3rd most popular paid exhibition in history. Which is pretty darn impressive considering that the gallery recently celebrated its 200th birthday. More than 280,000 people have visited the show since it opened, and the National Gallery are giving Londoners and beyond one final chance to see the sold-out show. On Friday, January 17the gallery will be pulling the ultimate all-nighter, and tickets have just gone on sale.
Van Gogh: Poets And Lovers
The exhibition is the gallery’s first display devoted entirely to Vincent Van Gogh. Focusing on the artist’s imaginative transformations, Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers features more than 60 works from museums and private collections from across the world – some of which are rarely seen in public. Visitors will have the chance to get up close and personal with the beloved likes of ‘Starry Night over the Rhône’, ‘The Yellow House’, ‘Sunflowers’, and ‘Van Gogh’s Chair’.
This will only be the second time in the National Gallery’s 200 year history to stay open all night. The first time being for Leonardo Da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan back in 2012. So, it will be a truly unique opportunity to be able to walk the gallery’s hallowed halls in the middle of the night.
Gabriele Finaldithe director of the National Gallerysaid: “As part of our opening to the last weekend, out 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 collections.”
