| \ver-nuh-SAHZH\ |
noun
1. a reception at a gallery for an artist whose show is about to open to the public.
2. Also called varnishing day. the day before the opening of an art exhibition traditionally reserved for the artist to varnish the paintings. |
| Quotes |
I went to the vernissage taking with me a friend, the invitation I had been given admitting two. We went very early. I had been told to go early otherwise we would not be able to see anything, and there would be no place to sit …
-- Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, 1933 |
| Origin |
| Vernissage comes from the French term of the same spelling, which translates literally as "a varnishing, touching up." It entered English in the early 1900s. |
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