{"id":1698,"date":"2022-10-29T10:53:35","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T02:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/?p=1698"},"modified":"2022-10-29T10:54:32","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T02:54:32","slug":"a-mondrian-work-was-found-to-have-been-hung-upside-down-for-over-75-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/artist\/a-mondrian-work-was-found-to-have-been-hung-upside-down-for-over-75-years\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mondrian Work Was Found to Have Been Hung Upside-Down for Over 75 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m \">At a press conference on the eve of\u00a0<em>Mondrian. Evolution<\/em>, a\u00a0<a id=\"auto-tag_piet-mondrian\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\" data-tag=\"piet-mondrian\">Piet Mondrian<\/a>\u00a0exhibition at Germany\u2019s Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen K20 museum, curator Susanne Meyer-B\u00fcser announced that the exhibition\u2019s highlight,\u00a0<em>New York\u00a0City 1\u00a0<\/em>(1941), has been displayed upside down since it was first seen in public, German publication\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Monopol<\/a><\/em>\u00a0reported Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m \">The first clue that the painting, an adhesive tape version of the similarly named\u00a0<em>New York<\/em>\u00a0(which hangs right-side up in Paris at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Centre Pompidou<\/a>), was hung incorrectly came from a photograph of the artist\u2019s studio in taken in 1944, shortly after he passed away, the curator said at the press conference. In the photo,\u00a0<em>New York City 1<\/em>\u00a0can be seen on an easel with the tightly grouped yellow, blue, and black stripes at the top.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m \">\u201cCould it be that the orientation shown in the photo is the actual one Mondrian had intended?\u201d the curator asked. According to Meyer-B\u00fcser the picture was first shown at New York\u2019s Museum of Modern Art in 1945. There, too, the thick grouping of stripes was shown at the bottom of the work instead of at the top. \u201cWas it coincidence, was it oversight?\u201d she said, adding that perhaps it was flipped over while being unpacked at MoMA over 75 years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m \">Meyer-B\u00fcser claims to have proof beyond the photograph taken on Mondrian\u2019s studio. She believes the artist would have worked from top to bottom, carefully layering the strips of tape over one another, weaving them together in a specific way, a feat that would be much more difficult if he worked from the bottom up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m \">Further, at what is currently the top of the picture, the tape is harshly torn and does not reach the edge of the canvas\u2014another sign that Mondrian likely worked from top to bottom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m \">Regardless, the work will be displayed at\u00a0<em>Mondrian. Evolution<\/em>, which chronicles Mondrian\u2019s stylistic development, the way it has been since 1945, unclean ends up, thick grouping of horizontal tape at the bottom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m \">\u201cIf I turn the work around, I risk destroying it,\u201d Meyer-B\u00fcser said, according to\u00a0<em>Monopol,\u00a0<\/em>and besides \u201cmaybe there is no right or wrong orientation at all?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m \"><em>New York City 1\u00a0<\/em>is not the only time that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\/\">MoMA<\/a> supposedly displayed a work the wrong way. In 1961, during the museum\u2019s exhibition of work by Henri Matisse, a stockbroker named Genevieve Habert noticed the paper cut\u00a0<em>La Bateau<\/em>\u00a0was hung upside down. Neither the museum staff, the 116,000 visitors, nor the artist\u2019s son Pierre had realized the mistake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m \">After multiple visits, Habert bought a catalogue and discovered she was right, only to be scoffed at by museum staff. She then approached the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>, which reported on the topsy-turvy cut out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m \">Shortly after publication, MoMA curators took a second look and ultimately rehung the picture the correct way. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\/\">Mrs. Habert should be given a medal<\/a>,\u201d Pierre Matisse told\u00a0the\u00a0<em>Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: https:\/\/artnews.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a press conference on the eve of\u00a0Mondrian. Evolution, a\u00a0Piet Mondrian\u00a0exhibition at Germany\u2019s Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen K20 museum, curator Susanne Meyer-B\u00fcser announced that the exhibition\u2019s highlight,\u00a0New York\u00a0City 1\u00a0(1941), has been displayed upside down since it was first seen in public, German publication\u00a0Monopol\u00a0reported Thursday. 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