Leonardo National Gallery

Leonardo: Experience a Masterpiece

NOW EXTENDED TO 26 JANUARY – The Gallery becomes a painting studio, an imagined chapel and a room-sized experiment in this immersive exhibition that leads you through the mind of Leonardo da Vinci to explore his masterpiece, ‘The Virgin of the Rocks’.

09 November 2019 - 26 January 2020

Open daily 10am–6pm Friday until 9pm

National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DN

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Gauguin National Gallery

Gauguin Not A Role Model For Our Time – Edward Lucie-Smith

Gauguin both is and isn’t a hero for our time. In one sense it’s brave of the National Gallery to mount a big show of his work in the /MeToo era. It’s hard to think of any artist, of the immediately Pre-Modern or Early Modern epochs, who behaved worse to women.

4 October 2019

Paul Gauguin Portraits National Gallery

Gauguin Portraits

The first-ever exhibition devoted to the portraits of Paul Gauguin.

 

07 October 2019 - 26 January 2020

Open daily 10am–6pm Friday until 9pm

National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DN

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Bartolomé Bermejo National Gallery

Bartolomé Bermejo: Master of the Spanish Renaissance

From the glimmer of a jewel to the sheen of armour, Bermejo’s ability to capture light, colours and textures in oil painting was unparalleled in 15th-century Spain.

12 June 2019 - 29 September 2019

Daily 10am–6pm Friday 10am–9pm

National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DN

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Sackler Room National Gallery

Sackler: A Family Divided – Dame Jillian Sackler Speaks Out

Dame Jillian Sackler, third wife of the late Arthur Sackler has defended her branch of the family’s philanthropic donations with a statement to the Washington Post, outlining that her side of the family has never participated in the manufacture of OxyContin or benefited from money generated by Purdue Pharma, which is wholly owned by the other side of the Sackler family.

15 April 2019

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Sean Scully National Gallery

Sea Star: Sean Scully at the National Gallery

See new work by Sean Scully inspired by the National Gallery Collection and Joseph Mallord William Turner’s ‘The Evening Star’.

13 April 2019 - 11 August 2019

Daily 10am–6pm Friday 10am–9pm

National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DN

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Sorolla National Gallery

Sorolla: Spanish Master of Light

The first UK exhibition of Spain’s Impressionist, Sorolla, in over a century.

18 March 2019 - 07 July 2019

Daily 10am–6pm Friday 10am–9pm

National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DN

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Bridget Riley National Gallery

Bridget Riley: Messengers

A new large-scale work by Bridget Riley in Annenberg Court of the National Gallery.

 

17 January 2019 - 26 January 2020

Daily 10am–6pm Friday 10am–9pm

National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DN

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Landseer The Monarch of the Glen National Gallery

Landseer’s The Monarch of the Glen

One of the world’s best-known animal paintings, Edwin Landseer’s ‘The Monarch of the Glen’, returns to the National Gallery for the first time since 1851.

29 November 2018 - 03 February 2019

Daily 10am–6pm Friday 10am–9pm

National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DN

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Lorenzo Lotto National Gallery

Lorenzo Lotto Portraits

Uncover the symbolism and psychological depth of Lotto’s Renaissance portraits.

05 November 2018 - 10 February 2019

Daily 10am–6pm Friday 10am–9pm

National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DN

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Mantegna and Bellini National Gallery

Mantegna and Bellini

A tale of two artists and brothers-in-law, ‘Mantegna and Bellini’ tells a story of art, family, rivalry, and personality.

01 October 2018 - 27 January 2019

Daily 10am–6pm Friday 10am–9pm

National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DN

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Tacita Dean National Gallery

Tacita Dean: Still Life

Explore still life through the lens of Tacita Dean, one of the genre’s leading contemporary practitioners

 

15 March 2018 - 28 May 2018

Daily 10am-6pm Friday 10am-9pm

National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DN

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Murillo Self Portraits National Gallery

Murillo: The Self Portraits

One of the most celebrated painters of the Spanish Golden Age, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo is well known for his religious paintings and his extraordinary depictions of street children. He was also an ingenious portraitist, although this aspect of his oeuvre is less studied.

28 February 2018 - 21 May 2018

Daily 10am–6pm Friday 10am–9pm

National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DN

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Monochrome National Gallery

Monochrome: Painting in Black and White

Explore the tradition of painting in black and white from its beginnings in the Middle Ages through the Renaissance and into the 21st century.

30 October 2017 - 18 February 2018

Daily 10am – 6pm, 10am – 9pm Fridays

National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DN

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Drawn in Colour Degas from The Burrell National GalleryDrawn in Colour Degas from The Burrell National Gallery

Drawn in Colour: Degas From The Burrell

A rare opportunity to see stunning paintings, pastels, and drawings by leading French Impressionist Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas on loan from the Burrell Collection in Glasgow.

20 September 2017 - 07 May 2018

Daily 10am – 6pm, 10am – 9pm Fridays

National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DN

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