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New York City I, a 1941 unfinished version of
New York City, a 1942 oil by
Piet Mondrian, hung upside-down at the
MOMA of New York and since 1980 at the
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen. After the mistake was discovered in 2022, the painting's orientation was not corrected, in order to avoid damage. • , a
paper-cut by
Henri Matisse depicting a ship reflected on the water, was hung upside-down at the MOMA for 47 days in 1961. •
Georgia O'Keeffe's
The Lawrence Tree (1929) depicts a tree from its foot. It hung up upside-down in 1931 and between 1979 and 1989. Her
Oriental Poppies hung upside-down for 30 years at the
Weisman Art Museum of the University of Minnesota. • For a period in 1994,
Salvador Dalí's ''Four Fishermen's Wives in Cadaquès'' was upside-down at the
Metropolitan Museum of New York. By inverting his paintings, the artist is able to emphasize the organisation of colours and form and confront the viewer with the picture's surface rather than the personal content of the image. In this sense, the paintings are empty and not subject to interpretation. Instead, one can only look at them. ==When both orientations are valid==