Piet Mondrian’s painting that hung upside down for over 75 years

A work by Dutch abstract artist Piet Mondrian has been hanging upside down in various galleries for more than 75 years.

Despite the recent discovery, the work is titled “New York City yo“will continue to display upside down to prevent damage.

The painting, dating from 1941, was first shown at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York in 1945.

It was attached to Art collection from North Rhine-Westphalia, Germanyin Dusseldorf, since 1980.

Curator Susanne Meyer Bowser noticed the long-running error when researching the artist’s new museum exhibit earlier this year, but cautioned that it could disintegrate if it were hung on the right side now.

“New York City 1” is a tape version of the painting “New York City” by the same artist.

“The thickness of the net should be on top, like a darkened sky,” said Meyer Boozer guardian On the artwork of a red, blue, and yellow striped trellis is incomplete and unsigned.

When contacted by the BBC, she added: “As soon as I pointed it out to the other curators, we realized it was very clear. The picture is probably upside down.”

The evidence seems to confirm this theory, because the work “New York City”, which is on display at the Center Pompidou in Paris, shows the thickness of the lines at the top, rather than at the bottom.

Additionally, a photo of the influential Dutchman’s studio, taken days after his death, shows the same image reclining on an upside-down easel.

The photo was published in an American lifestyle magazine city ​​and country In June 1944.

MondrianBorn in Utrecht (Netherlands) in 1872, he is considered one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century and A pioneer in modern abstraction, simplicity and expressionism.

As co-founder of the De Stijl group and art movement, and in search of “universal beauty”, he developed a non-symbolic form he called the New Plastic.

After moving to Paris in 1911, he experimented with Cubism, but his name is now synonymous with modernism.

His work has had a huge impact, not only in the art world but also in the fields of design, architecture and fashion.

According to the Dusseldorf Gallery, his recently revised series of New York City paintings from 1941 to 1942, shortly before his death at the age of 71, was seen as “a revolution in Mondrian’s strict concept of Gestalt” (form).

The exhibition describes New York City 1 as “a lively and dynamic rhythm of colorful stripes – red, blue and yellow – [que] It replaced pictorial language and reduced it radically to geometrical structure and reduced it to primary colors as well as black and white.”

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