A Mondrian Work Was Found to Have Been Hung Upside-Down for Over 75 Years

ARTnes ^ | October 27, 2022 | Daniel Cassady

[Albion Wilde]

I hadn’t thought of The Partridge Family in years.

And I, of the Mondrian dresses that were all the rage in the mid-60s.

[Albion Wilde]

Velvet Elvis

[Diana in Wisconsin]

That was my FIRST choice, but I couldn’t decide which one! :)

As for me? In Reality (Where *I* live; Miss You Every DAY, Rush!) I am both a Renoir and Mary Cassatt art lover...with a few Van Gogh pieces thrown in there for good measure. ;)

Have you seen, ‘Loving Vincent?’ Such a cool movie!

https://www.imdb.com/video/vi1862449433/?playlistId=tt3262342&ref_=tt_ov_vi

[fella]

I like the art on freight trains. A lot of it is Von Bode stuff and some of it is R. Crumb.

[moovova]

All they had to do was look at the back and see which way up the "Made in China" sticker was applied.

[Albion Wilde]

I have not seen the movie; but thanks for the tip!

I’m an art nouveau kinda gal. Klimt, for instance. Also love Italian still lifes of fruits or flowers.

[nicollo]

Oh, drat, they got this one upside down too!

[catnipman]

“A Mondrian Work Was Found to Have Been Hung Upside-Down for Over 75 Years”

are they sure? you know, really, really, really sure?

[zeugma]

Any work of art that could be hung upside down for years without anyone knowing it, isn’t actually a work of art at all.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Klimt's, 'Tree of Life' is a favorite.

But I like Pop Art, too. Audrey hangs in my kitchen:

But my favorite artist (of which I own three prints) is Andrew Wyeth:

[SunkenCiv]

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[Red Badger]

Looks fine to me!.........................

[AndyJackson]

So to get the right orientation from the made in China sticker do you flip it over or turn in around. Is there an ISO standard for this sort of thing?

[wildbill]

Did you see the Mark Wahlburg movie “Contraband” where the smugglers disguised a Jackson Pollock by placing it on the floor of a van like a painter’s dropcloth???

[Mr. K]

It’s a piece of crap no matter which way you hand it.

[Fred Nerks]

Oprah is reported to have made a $60ML profit on the sale of her Gustav Klimt painting, sold to a Chinese buyer for $150Million.

One of Klimt's teachers was the Austrian artist Michael Rieser, born in Schlitters in 1828, who was an ancestor. We have recently sold a collection of Rieser's preparatory works to the Klimt Foundation in Salzburg. Klimt's success was phenomenal. Michael Rieser, his teacher, was the brother of my grandmother's grandfather. His work was mostly on religious subjects:

Gustav Klimt

[Diana in Wisconsin]

If there’s one thing that former ‘Chicago Weather Girl’ knows how to do, it’s how to make money!

[Aut Pax Aut Bellum]

It sucks. But what would I know, I never went to art appreciation class for someone to tell me that to be a snob you have to like crap.