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Case Summary
Sonnabend Estate and the IRS
Précis
Art Dealer Ileana Sonnabend died in 2007 owning the painting Canyon by Robert Rauschenberg. The painting contained the carcass of a bald eagle. The estate valued the painting at zero since the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 prohibited...
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