Tres Personajes
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Tres Personajes, second version (English: "Three People") was painted by Mexican Modernist artist Rufino Tamayo in 1970. The brightly colored 51" by 38" (130 cm x 97 cm) painting is considered to be significant as an example of Tamayo's mature style. It is an abstract depiction of a man, a woman and an androgynous figure in a rich palette of purple, orange and yellow, with Tamayo's signature rough surface texture, made of sand and ground marble dust mixed into the paint.[1][2] The artist died in 1991 at the age of 91.[3]
The painting was purchased by an anonymous Houston, Texas resident for $55,000 in 1977 as a gift for his wife. It was stolen from a storage warehouse in 1987, but was found in the trash in November, 2003 by New York resident Elizabeth Gibson, who received $15,000 USD as a reward for returning the painting, as well as a portion of the proceeds of its auction by Sotheby's in November 2007.[4] [5][6][7]
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- ^ "One Person’s Trash Is Another Person’s Lost Masterpiece", by Carol Vogel, October 23, 2007, New York Times. Retrieved Apr 16, 2010.
- ^ "Stolen Tamayo Found in Manhattan Trash May Sell for $1 Million", by Lindsay Pollock, Oct. 23, 2007, Bloomberg. Retrieved Apr 16, 2010.
- ^ Bone, James "How a ‘skip-rat’ managed to turn rubbish into a $1m work of art". The Times (London), 24 October 2007
- ^ ULA ILNYTZKY (23 October 2007). "Painting found in trash could fetch $1M". USA Today. Associated Press. http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-10-23-1155441169_x.htm.
- ^ Charlotte Higgins (24 October 2007). "Stolen masterpiece found on New York street". London: The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2197779,00.html.
- ^ "Painting Found in Trash Sells for $1M". The San Francisco Chronicle. Associated Press. November 21, 2007. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/11/21/national/a065007S04.DTL&tsp=1. Retrieved 2007-11-21.[dead link]
- ^ Lisa Gray (November 6, 2007). "Finding Tamayo painting was result of fate". Houston Chronicle. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/entertainment/5266414.html. Retrieved 2007-11-21.
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