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Tamayo Masterpiece: From The Trash Bin To The Auction Block | Orato | True Stories, Citizen News

I am a senior vice president and one of the directors of the Impressionist and Modern Art Department here at Sotheby’s. I’m also an auctioneer. I have studied the works of Rufino Tamayo and was involved in the recovery of his long-lost work, ‘Tres Personajes,’ which was found in the trash in New York by a woman named Elizabeth Gibson. The piece is going to be on the auction block on November 20, 2007 and is expected to sell for $750K to $1 million.

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