Mondrian painting has been hanging UPSIDE DOWN in different galleries for 75 years

The art world is shocked after a curator revealed that a painting by Mondrian has been exhibited upside down in various galleries for 75 years – and no one had any idea.

The Dutch artist Piet Mondrian made the painting ‘New York City I’ in 1941. It was placed in the MoMA in New York in 1945, but has been on display in North Rhine-Westphalia in Düsseldorf since 1980.

The design consists of red, yellow, black and blue adhesive tape that form a grid and has multicolored lines thickened at the bottom in a simplified skyline.

But actually it should be hung so that the thickening of the grid is at the top, like a dark sky, said curator Susanne Meyer-Büser during a press conference.

The curator made the discovery earlier this year when she was researching the museum’s new exhibition on Mondrian.

Susanne said the other curators realized as soon as she showed them and she added that she is “100% sure” that the photo is upside down.

Evidence that it was hung incorrectly includes an image of Mondrian’s studio, which shows the image on an easel the other way around.

The photo is from 1944 and appeared in Town and Country a few days after the abstract artist died, and the painting is the orientation that Susanne says is correct.

There is also another painting by Mondrian, called New York City, which has the thickening of the lines at the top and can be seen at the Center Pompidou in Paris.

About how New York City I was designed, Meyer-Büser said she believes intricate layering was probably applied to the top of the frame, and Mondrian then worked her way down.

Meyer-Büser believes that it would have been more difficult to weave the strips of tape over each other from below.

She added that some yellow lines stop a few millimeters before the bottom edge, something that may have happened when he worked from top to bottom.

The curator also said the tape at the top of the photo is torn and it has been suggested that the image was accidentally flipped as early as 1945.

Curators are not exactly sure how the mistake was made, but Meyer Büser suggested that the painting may have been incorrectly unboxed or transported incorrectly.

But curators will never know what actually happened, and the statue doesn’t have Mondrian’s signature on it, meaning he may not have actually finished it.

Although the error has been discovered, the painting is shown as it has always been, as it is fragile.

Meyer-Buser said about his exhibition in the Mondrian. Evolution show that starts on Saturday in Düsseldorf: ‘The adhesive tape is already extremely loose and hanging by a thread.

“Now if you turned it upside down, gravity would pull it in a different direction. And it is now part of the story of the work.”

It’s not the first time a painting has been misrepresented, especially an abstract painting.

Matisse’s Le Bateau was placed upside down at the Museum of Modern Art in New York for 47 days in 1961, until a stockbroker named Genevieve Habert entered the exhibit and showed the curators the error.

It was a mistake that was also missed by 116,000 visitors and Matisse’s son Pierre.

But trustees were skeptical of Habert’s confession, also uncovered after she viewed a catalog, until she revealed to the New York Times that she’d seen the mistake.

It was only then that MoMA employees actually rotated the image the right way, realizing the flaw of their ways.

Matisse’s son was overjoyed, telling the Times that Habert “should get a medal.”