# Van Gogh stolen. Why? What can you do with it? \[Update - The painting has been recovered\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 30, 2020, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/van-gogh-stolen-why-what-can-you-do-with-it-update-the-painting-has-been-recovered/850672 "2020-03-30T15:36:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 8
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Or you find it in the garbage on the curb in New York… > **[Tres Personajes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tres_Personajes)** > > Tres Personajes 'Pendejos', 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. Th Tres ... --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/van-gogh-stolen-why-what-can-you-do-with-it-update-the-painting-has-been-recovered/850672)._