A person recently threw away 1,000,000 dollars on the streets of New York City - in the form of a 1970s Rufino Tamayo painting! The painting "Tres Personajes" was stolen in 1987 and just now reappeared. A woman walking around the streets of NYC saw the painting in a pile of junk. She quickly plucked it out of the rubbish. But this was four years ago. I guess it took her four years ago to realize she was sitting on a gold mine!
The painting originally belonged to a Houston couple before it was stolen. The painting will be returned to the original owner and sold at Sotheby's.
One man's trash is another man's treasure! I keep on telling myself that my habit of dumpster diving will eventually pay off. Probably not in the form of a million dollar masterpiece though...
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