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The Mondrian estate is threatening people over a public domain painting

Ellsworth Toohey
Mar 03, 2026
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Piet Mondrian Art In the Stedelijk Museum (In Case You’re Wondering/shutterstock.com )

The Mondrian/Holtzman Trust has a creative legal theory: a 147-year-old Spanish statute and a Spanish Supreme Court ruling should govern the copyright status of a Dutch painter’s work in the United States. That’s what the Trust told an art magazine when asked about Pie…

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