American writer Elizabeth Gibson 4 years ago in New York, picked up garbage in a beautiful canvas painting, she turned this "junk" brought back home. 4 years later, the painting was found in the 20th century Mexican painter Rufino Tamayo representative works, the market price 1,000,000 U.S. dollars.
     "The New York Times" reported that 23, entitled "trio" of the painting is expected to become the next month, auction house Sotheby Latin American art auction of the star.
     Met paintings
     In March 2003 of the day, Gibson go to the cafe on the way. Come to New York Avenue, Broadway and Seventh Street between an apartment building, she saw two garbage bags in the middle of a colorful canvas painting.
     "I am a self-struggling for a short while," she said, this painting is about 130 cm, 96 cm wide, as the picture too, she hesitated whether or not it will be the pick to go home. However, Gibson said it "strange power" to make their own difficult to leave.
      The painting by the bright purple, orange-red, yellow, seem to be able to see the 3-person. "It is impossible to resist, but the structure is very simple."
     And four years later, experts recognize that this is Mexican artist Rufino Tamayo's works, stolen 20 years ago. U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has been traced. The painting currently valued as high as 1,000,000 U.S. dollars.
     Gibson said that he did not know painting, painting seized when they did not think there will be painting any commercial value. She was asked to return to guard the building, the guard told her that she just left about 20 minutes, a garbage truck loaded walk to the other garbage.
     The mystery of life
     Experts confirmed that the painting, according to FBI records, "The New York Times" reporter traced back to drawn this background that it was a romantic gift.
     In 1977, a Houston businessman and collector through Sotheby's auction house to buy, "three" as a birthday gift to his wife. At that time, painting the transaction price is 55,000 U.S. dollars.
     Ten years later, they moved from house to live an apartment, painting in storage in a local warehouse. But the painting was missing. The couple quickly report to the police and the international Art Research Foundation, and other pictures published on the website, offering a reward of 15,000 U.S. dollars collecting clues, but found nothing.
     The painting's disappearance also affects auction house Sotheby's August Uribe famous connoisseur. Since then, he has paid attention to the "three" whereabouts.
     The tortuous course
     The painting went to Houston from New York's garbage in the streets, so far Rengshi Mi.
     Gibson was the painting hung in the living room. By the auction house pointing a friend, she found the upper right corner of the screen in the first sign of a "Tamayo 0-70". On the back of the painting, she found that 3 exhibition with a small hook, belong to the Po Ersi Gallery in Manhattan, the City of Paris Museum of Modern Art, the Manhattan gallery Rich Fagan.
     Sorting painting for more than a year later, a friend of Gibson to an auction house Sotheby's auction catalog products, which are just a Rufino Tamayo works, the price 500,000 U.S. dollars. It also brought several friends to introduce Rufino Tamayo's book, "three" in which China and India out of a book on the cover. Gibson said: "I was shocked."
     After travel, Gibson finally Uribe met with the connoisseur.
     "I asked her to describe the painting's texture and appearance. When she told me touch a rough gravel-like texture, I know that it is wrong." Uribe said Tamayo painting like when the sand, debris, such as marble Mixed with pigments in.
     Witness the painting, Uribe has affirmed: "This color, texture, only Tamayo."
     Has a "three-line" and his wife now lives in South America, her husband has died, the former mistress to a birthday present to the Sotheby's auction house.
     In addition to the masters of the art Gibson was provided by the 15,000 U.S. dollars prize money, will also receive Sotheby auction house to provide a small "treasure hunt" prize.
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     Mexico and the home version of the mural painter, Mexico representative of the 20th century painter. Born in 1899, died in 1991.
     Tamayo August 26, 1899 was born in Mexico City, Oaxaca. 1917 San Carlos in the College of Fine Arts. 1921 National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico any race director of painting. For the first time in 1926 in Mexico City and New York art exhibition. Public office in 1928 the Ministry of Education Secretary plastic arts.
     In 1938, Tamayo lived in New York for 18 years, and Professor of Fine Arts in New York; and then lived in Paris for 10 years. His paintings by European and American Art School, in particular, is represented by Picasso's painting of modern French influence, and has its own unique artistic style. Renowned for his work at home and abroad.
     He is the representative of the decorative murals at the UNESCO Hall, "Pirates of the Prometheus fire to the earth." There are other important works of oil painting "shotgun and a woman" (1941); mural, "The birth of our nation" (1952), "Mexico Today" (1952).
     In 1974, Tamayo would be in possession of 1300 I presented the work of the museum home city of Oaxaca.