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An artwork has been hanging upside down – for more than 75 years.
🖼️ Piet Mondrian's famous artwork ‘New York City I’ has been hanging upside down for the past 77 years, and no one knows how it came to be that way pic.twitter.com/KQFnxpltNZ
— Reuters (@Reuters) October 28, 2022
New York City I is one of Dutch abstract artist Piet Mondrian’s most important works but experts now believe it has been the wrong way up for decades.
Despite the realisation, it will remain that way in case the strips used in the artwork come loose. The picture was created in 1941 and first put on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1945.
Since 1980 it’s been hung in the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen art collection in Dusseldorf, Germany. At an event for the artist’s anniversary exhibition, curator Susanne Meyer-Buser stunned the audience by revealing its secret.
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