He said: “From a public point of view, that’s more challenging, so any museum is always trying to gauge what the risks are to an object.
“So the decision has been taken that when it goes back, it will be displayed at an angle. Whether that means forever and ever, who knows.
“But certainly in the foreseeable future and for our generation, that’s the last time you would see it hung.”
The artwork was hung in Normandy for the first time in 1982, Mr de Beer said, but curators had been pushing for the artwork to be laid flat for a decade – an angular case is now being developed.
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