For fans of Freud's National Portrait Gallery will be working overtime

The museum will extend operating hours to 21 hours on Saturday to show Lusiena Freud were able to visit on more than 7000 visitors

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BBC reports that the National Portrait Gallery in London will change the hours of work, passing it to an exhibition of outstanding British portraitist Lusiena Freud (Lucian Freud) to attend an additional 7000 people.

On Freud's retrospective, which opened in early February, has already visited 50 000 spectators. To allow art lovers to enjoy the works of Freud, the gallery through May on Saturdays will be open until 21 pm.

Lusien Freud died in July last year at age 88. The exhibition displays over 100 works created by the artist throughout his life - portraits of his family members, friends and celebrities.

The works of Freud sold at auction for a lot of money, but his work is "Sleep Inspector benefits", also present at the exhibition, in 2008 set a record price for a picture of a living artist, when it was sold for 33.6 million dollars (20.6 million pounds) at auction Christie's .

Prepared by Mary Estrova, AI

Source: bbc.co.uk , artinvestment.ru

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