Van Gogh exhibition sets new Tate Britain record for advance ticket sales

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Robert Dex @RobDexES28 March 2019

The Van Gogh exhibition at Tate Britain is on track to be its most popular ever after selling more than 33,600 advance tickets.

That is 2,000 more than were sold for the 2017 David Hockney retrospective, which went on to pull in 478,082 visitors — a record for the gallery.

Van Gogh and Britain traces the impact of the three years the artist spent living and working in London as a young man, and also the effect his work had on British artists, particularly a landmark Tate exhibition in 1947.

The show, which opened yesterday, has over 50 works by the artist, including Starry Night 1888 and Sunflowers and his only image of London — a copy of an engraving of prisoners exercising in the yard at Newgate Prison. Tate Britain director Alex Farquharson said: “The popularity of the exhibition so far is a great testament to Van Gogh’s enduring appeal in the public’s imagination.”

The most popular show across the Tate galleries remains Tate Modern’s 2014 Matisse show, which was visited by 562,622 people.

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