Tres Personajes

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.[1][2] The artist died in 1991 at the age of 91.[3]

  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