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Le Bateau caused a minor stir when the Museum of Modern Art, New York, which housed it, hung the work upside-down for 47 days in 1961 until Genevieve Habert, a stockbroker, noticed the mistake and notified a guard.  Habert later informed The New York Times, which in turn notified Monroe Wheeler, the museum's art director.  As a result, the artwork was rehung properly. An assistant curator blamed the confusion on a label on the verso posted the wrong way, as well as screw holes which implied it had been hung upside down before.
Monroe Wheeler Museum of Modern Art, New York The New York Times hung the work upside-down Museum of Modern Art