In June 2024, as part of the National Gallery’s free ‘Discover’ series, Degas’s Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando, 1879, takes centre stage. This landmark Impressionist painting records an extraordinary moment and features a remarkable sitter – the circus artist Miss La La, or Anna Albertine Olga Brown (1858-1945). This exhibition will take a closer …
Summer 2023 sees the third iteration of the National Gallery’s critically acclaimed Visits tour, this year seeing John Constable’s The Cornfield popping up in unusual and unexpected public spaces around England. Working with teams from arts charities, local museums, and community groups, the painting will be appearing in high streets and community spaces across June …
National Gallery Visits returns, touring Constable’s The Cornfield all over England Read More »
The largest exhibition devoted to the work of Frans Hals for more than thirty years opens at the National Gallery this autumn. The Credit Suisse Exhibition: Frans Hals (30 September 2023 – 21 January 2024) is the first large-scale monographic exhibition devoted to the 17th-century Dutch portrait painter for a generation. The exhibition, which is organised …
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Visitors will become part of a new work of art at the National Gallery – an installation on the floor of one of its most imposing rooms – by being invited to recline and admire a dramatic new 25-by-64-metre textile sculpture on the ceiling. At the same time, through a new audio work, they will …
This summer, the National Gallery will showcase children’s artworks in the 28th annual Take One Picture exhibition, with students across the country taking inspiration from Claude-Joseph Vernet’s A Shipwreck in Stormy Seas. Each year the Gallery invites primary schools nationwide to focus on one of its paintings and respond creatively, following the children’s questions and ideas. The programme …
More than 30 years after Dame Paula Rego (1935–2022), the National Gallery’s first Associate Artist (1990–92), was invited to create a mural for the Sainsbury Wing Dining Room, a new exhibition will celebrate the relationship of one of the most ambitious of Rego’s public commissions titled Crivelli’s Garden to the National Gallery and its collection. The exhibition …
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Botticelli to Van Gogh: Masterpieces from the National Gallery – a new exhibition of 52 paintings by artists such as Raphael, Titian, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Constable, Monet, and Van Gogh – is touring Asia during 2023 and early 2024. As the Gallery prepares for NG200 – its year-long Bicentenary celebration from 10 May 2024 – significant building work …
The National Gallery second partner for Asia Tour: National Museum of Korea Read More »
The National Gallery has acquired its first painting by the German Modernist painter Max Pechstein (1881–1955) — thanks to the bequest of a plot of land by a French teacher from the north-east of England. The purchase of Portrait of Charlotte Cuhrt from auction at Bonhams in November 2022 was made possible through a legacy to the …
