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That institution opened a major retrospective of the artist on Saturday, with the work “New York City 1”, from 1941, as the main piece.<\/p>\n
However, that painting was exposed for decades with its bottom side up, it said.<\/p>\n
“In a photo from 1944, I saw that the canvas was [colocado] in the other direction on the easel. That intrigued me,” said Susanne Meyer-B\u00fcser, curator of the exhibition, in an interview with the German newspaper S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung.<\/p>\n
The painting, made up of various red, yellow and blue strokes that intersect at right angles, was exhibited “a year later”, in the wrong direction, at the Moma in New York, he added.<\/p>\n
And when the D\u00fcsseldorf museum received the painting in 1980, it hung in the same way.<\/p>\n
An error that could be due to the fact that “the painting does not have a signature,” said the curator.<\/p>\n
Thus, its meaning would have been determined by “the name of the painter, written on the back of the painting by the administrator of the estate” when Modrian died in 1944.<\/p>\n
Piet Mondrian, born 1872, is one of the leading figures in the Dutch “De Stijl” (“The Style”) movement, known for its horizontal and vertical lines and primary colors.<\/p>\n
In 1940, the painter went to New York and was inspired by the skyscrapers of that city to create his paintings.<\/p>\n
He is known worldwide for his canvas “Victory Boogie Woogie”, considered one of the most important works of the 20th century.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n