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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