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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
John Bett

Art world turned upside down as famous painting displayed incorrectly for 77 years

A famous painting by Dutch artist Piet Mondrian has been making waves in the art world as it emerged the painting has been hung upside down for the past 77 years. The artwork, named New York City I, was created in 1941 and it has been displayed in prominent galleries around the world since 1945, but in all that time no one noticed it had been hung incorrectly.

The design is made up of yellow, red, and blue stripes that cross against each other and intersect white spaces in the background, but noticeably the lines are much thicker at the bottom, or top, depending on how you hang it. Now a curator has noticed the error, but said it's been upside down for so long that it's too late to turn it round.

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