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Mexican artist Rufino Tamayo’s “Tres Personajes” a 1970 painting vibrating with reds, yellows and purples, may fetch as much as $1 million at a Sotheby’s auction on Nov. 20, the work’s first public viewing since Elizabeth Gibson spied it in a mound of garbage on a Manhattan sidewalk.

Gibson, a tall, blond 53-year-old resident of the Upper West Side, went out for a cup of coffee on a Saturday morning in 2003. She spotted a large painting poking out from among the garbage bags left on the sidewalk on West 72nd Street. In her pre-caffeinated haze, she kept walking.

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There’s an ease and an affection between Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony that makes their performances even more appealing together than they are separately.

Whatever the case, their duets — the ballad “Por Arriesgarnos” and the salsafied “No Me Ames” — were the best moments in the duo’s show at Madison Square Garden Sunday night, part of Lopez’s first national tour.

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