Piet Mondrian artwork displayed upside down for 75 years

An artwork by the abstract Dutch creator Piet Mondrian has been hanging upside down successful assorted galleries for 75 years, an creation historiographer has said.

Despite the caller discovery, the work, entitled New York City I, volition proceed to beryllium displayed the incorrect mode up to debar it being damaged.

The 1941 representation was archetypal enactment connected show astatine New York's MoMA successful 1945.

It has hung astatine the creation postulation of the German authorities of North Rhine-Westphalia successful Düsseldorf since 1980.

Curator Susanne Meyer-Büser noticed the longstanding mistake erstwhile researching the museum's caller amusement connected the creator earlier this year, but warned it could disintegrate if it was hung the close broadside up now.

New York City I is an adhesive-tape mentation of the likewise named New York City coating by the aforesaid artist.

"The thickening of the grid should beryllium astatine the top, similar a acheronian sky," Meyer-Büser told The Guardian, astir the unfinished and unsigned red, bluish and yellowish striped lattice artwork.

"Once I pointed it retired to the different curators, we realised it was precise obvious. It is precise apt the representation is the incorrect mode around," she added erstwhile contacted by the BBC.

The grounds seems to carnivore this mentation out, arsenic the similarly-named New York City, which is connected show astatine Paris's Centre Pompidou, displays a thickening of lines astatine the top, alternatively than the bottom.

Furthermore, a photograph of the influential Dutchman's studio, taken days aft his decease shows the aforesaid representation sitting connected an easel the different mode up.

The representation was published successful the American manner mag Town and Country successful June 1944.

Mondrian, who was calved successful the Utrecht portion of The Netherlands successful 1872, is regarded arsenic 1 of the top artists of the 20th Century, and a pioneer of the modern abstract style, minimalism and expressionism.

As the co-founder of the De Stijl creation radical and movement, and successful hunt of "universal beauty", helium evolved a non-representational signifier which helium termed Neoplasticism.

Moving to Paris successful 1911, helium experimented successful Cubism, but his sanction is these days synonymous with modernism.

His enactment had a immense influence, not lone connected the creation satellite but besides successful the fields of design, architecture and fashion.

According to the Düsseldorf gallery, His precocious re-visited bid of New York City paintings from 1941 and 1942, soon earlier his decease aged 71, was seen arsenic "a gyration successful Mondrian's strict conception of Gestalt" [shape].

The assemblage describes Referring to New York City I arsenic "a lively, dynamic bushed of coloured, red, bluish and yellowish stripes [which] took the spot of the radically reduced pictorial connection with the geometric operation and the simplification to the superior colours arsenic good arsenic achromatic and white."