Despite the discovery, the work, titled New York City I, will continue to be displayed the wrong way up to avoid damaging it
On the left: Mondrian painting as it was hung incorrectly; right: how it should look.has been hanging upside down in various museums since it was first put on display 75 years ago, an art historian has found, but warned it could disintegrate if it was hung the right side up now.
The way the picture is currently hung shows the multicoloured lines thickening at the bottom, suggesting an extremely simplified version of a skyline. However, when curator Susanne Meyer-Büser started researching the museum’s new show on the Dutch avant garde artist earlier this year, she realised the picture should be the other way around.
Indicators suggesting an incorrect hanging are multifold. The similarly named and same-sized oil painting, New York City, which isA photograph of Mondrian’s studio, taken a few days after the artist’s death and published in American lifestyle magazine Town and Country in June 1944, also shows the same picture sitting on an easel the other way up.
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