Famous Mondrian painting hung upside down for 77 years

For the last 77 years Piet Mondrian's famous artwork "New York City I" has been hanging upside down.

According to the curator of an upcoming Mondrian exhibition, Susanne Meyer-Büser, it will likely remain an "everlasting mystery" how it came to be hung this way, she said on Friday in Düsseldorf, Germany. She was also the one to discover that the artwork has been presented incorrectly through all these years.

Meyer-Büser found an old photo of Mondrian's studio where "New York City I" was shown the other way round from the usual one. So, she turned a cardboard copy of the artwork upside down and had a look.

"It actually works incredibly well when you turn it upside down," she said. "Suddenly it has more plasticity, more depth."

But the artwork is not going to be presented in the newly-discovered intended way at the upcoming "Mondrian. Evolution" exhibition in Düsseldorf, due to conservation reasons. "If we were to turn it over, it could be that the adhesive strips would come loose," Meyer-Büser explained. "Then we would no longer have a beautiful picture."

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