Tres Personajes

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]

Notes

  1. "One Person’s Trash Is Another Person’s Lost Masterpiece", by Carol Vogel, October 23, 2007, New York Times. Retrieved Apr 16, 2010.
  2. "Stolen Tamayo Found in Manhattan Trash May Sell for $1 Million", by Lindsay Pollock, Oct. 23, 2007, Bloomberg. Retrieved Apr 16, 2010.
  3. Bone, James "How a ‘skip-rat’ managed to turn rubbish into a $1m work of art". The Times (London), 24 October 2007
  4. ULA ILNYTZKY (23 October 2007). "Painting found in trash could fetch $1M". USA Today. Associated Press.
  5. Charlotte Higgins (24 October 2007). "Stolen masterpiece found on New York street". London: The Guardian.
  6. "Painting Found in Trash Sells for $1M". The San Francisco Chronicle. Associated Press. November 21, 2007. Archived from the original on November 22, 2007. Retrieved 2007-11-21.
  7. Lisa Gray (November 6, 2007). "Finding Tamayo painting was result of fate". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 2007-11-21.
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