Woman finds painting in trash, sells for $1.049 million years later

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In 2003, Elizabeth Gibson discovered a brightly colored painting in the trash on Manhattan's Upper West Side. She later learned it was a 1970 work titled 'Tres Personajes' by artist Rufino Tamayo. The painting had been stolen from a couple in Houston, Texas, back in 1987. It was ultimately sold at auction by Sotheby's for a final price of $1.049 million.

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