Not even Paul Gauguin, Piet Mondrian, Mark Rothko, Van Gogh nor Salvador Dalí were immune.
This landscape was sold in an auction in Tahiti after the death of Gauguin in 1903. According to Victor Segalen, a friend of the artist who was present at the sale, the auctioneer presented the painting upside-down, calling it"Niagara Falls." Segalen bought it for the equivalent of a few pennies and turned it the right way up, revealing that it depicted Brittany cottages rather than plunging water.
At the National Gallery in London again, a 19th century Van Gogh was hung incorrectly until a 15 year-old-girl pointed it out.Salvador Dalí,"Four Fishermen's Wives of Cadaqués" Four Fishermen's Wives of Cadaqués " was hanging upside down in a 1994 show at London's Hayward Gallery. It was the phallus that alerted us: Dalí would hardly have made it point downwards. London art critics had not noticed. The Independent's Tim Hilton innocently described the upside down surrealist painting as"the highlight of the exhibition.
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