{{Short description|1970 painting by Rufino Tamayo}}{{italic}}Tres Personajes, second version (English: "Three Characters") 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."One Personâ€™s Trash Is Another Personâ€™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. The artist died in 1991 at the age of 91.Bone, James "How a â€˜skip-ratâ€™ managed to turn rubbish into a $1m work of art". The Times (London), 24 October 2007

Theft and recovery

Tres Personajes was bought by a Houston man as a gift for his wife in 1977, then stolen from their storage locker in 1987 during a move. In 2003, Elizabeth Gibson found the painting in the trash on a New York City curb.NEWS

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Although she knew little about modern art, Gibson felt the painting "had a strange power" and took it without knowing its origin or market value.NEWS,weblink Painting Found in Trash Sells for $1M, November 21, 2007, Associated Press, 2007-11-21, The San Francisco Chronicle, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20071122141522weblink">weblink November 22, 2007, She spent four years trying to learn about the work, eventually learning from the PBS website that it had been featured on an episode of Antiques Roadshow. After seeing the Missing Masterpieces segment about Tres Personajes, Gibson contacted the former owner, who arranged to sell the painting at a Sotheby's auction. In November 2007 Gibson received a $15,000 reward plus a portion of the $1,049,000 auction sale price.NEWS, Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian, Stolen masterpiece found on New York street, 24 October 2007,weblink London, NEWS, 2007-11-21, Houston Chronicle, Finding Tamayo painting was result of fate,weblink November 6, 2007, Lisa Gray,

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