Tate have revealed that their recent David Hockney show was the most visited exhibition ever held at the gallery.
The world’s most extensive retrospective of Hockney’s work was seen by an average of over 4,300 visitors each day making it the most visited exhibition of a living artist ever held at any of Tate’s four galleries. Open from 9 February to 29 May, the show saw 478,082 people come through the doors.
In fact, the show was so popular Tate held a number of additional late night openings including staying open until midnight on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday of its final weekend.
Staged in advance of David Hockney’s 80th birthday this summer, the exhibition spanned six decades of work and included paintings, drawing, photographs, video and iPad pieces.
Curated in chronological order, the colourful exhibition journeys between early unseen work Hockney compelted at art school to his iconic pieces capturing the Yorkshire landscape and the Hollywood Hills, and more recent experimentations with technology.
Unfortunately for anyone who is yet to see the exhibition, it has now wrapped in London.
However, all is not lost. The blockbuster show now moves to Centre Pompidou in Paris (21 June to 23 October 2017), followed by The Metropolitan Museum in New York (21 November 2017 to 25 February 2018). Time to book that Eurostar?
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