The news of the recovery of this painting by Mexican artist Rufino Tamayo, which was stolen twenty years ago, is all over the internet and television. Apparently, a Manhattan woman saw the piece lying in trash along a street. She says she doesn't know anything about art, but that it just didn't seem right to her that a piece like this should be discarded. It's now in the capable hands of the Sotheby's auction house (my cousin works there, btw).
The woman is being awarded a $15K finder's fee and a percentage of the sale of the artwork, which is expected to fetch up to ONE MILLION DOLLARS.
Wow.
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