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Marjorie Firth

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Marjorie Firth

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Sorry, I couldn’t attach the link. I’m sure many of you have read that one of his paintings has been hung upside down for many years and apparently will stay that way. 🥴

Sylvia Evans

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It was Mondrian I think, wasn't it?..I laughed..
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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They are leaving it as it’s been upside down in many galleries for 75 years . They fear that it may get damage if they put it the correct way up . Should have said nothing no one would have known , and will it look any better?.
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Robert Jones, Napa

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Put together with coloured adhesive tape wasn't it - which is in a poor shape, and might fall off if the picture were shown the right way up.  Now there's yer proof - if you make paintings - make 'em with paint.  (And also write "This Way Up" on the back... or of course, sign it; which in this case he didn't.)   I'm a bit of a fan of Mondrian - thankfully, a lot of his work still exists, in good nick.  

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Tessa Gwynne

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For anyone who hasn’t seen it, this  is the piece as it’s currently hung. Apparently the thicker band of coloured tape at the bottom represents the sky. I wonder how many people have happily viewed this in the decades it has hung there, without realising!
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Robert Jones, Napa

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Hm.  As I averred in my previous encomium - yes, it's swallow a dictionary week here at the Batcave - I'm a fan of Mondrian's generally; but I can't say I think it would be any tragedy if this work did indeed fall to pieces.  
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Lucian Hodoboc

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or of course, sign it; which in this case he didn't.)  Robert Jones, NAPA on 28/10/2022 22:01:48
How do they know it's his and not a forgery?

Jenny Harris

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A programme I saw a while ago about forgery in art suggested that up to 40% of paintings in the high-end art market could be fakes.  And watching the Fake or Fortune series it seems that even the ‘experts’ can’t always agree - what’s declared a fake one year can be re-evaluated by a different ‘expert’ years later and declared to be the real thing!

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Denise Cat

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This is the real deal I snapped the other week."