The 1945 painting ‘Troubadour’ by Rufino Tamayo, is the highest selling piece of Latin American art. The piece sold for $7.2 million beating out Frida Kahlo’s “Roots,” which sold in May 2006 for $5.6 million.

“The 1945 painting, which depicts a musician strumming his guitar as two women watch, was acquired by an anonymous buyer“, Christie’s spokeswoman Sung-Hee Park said.

Some people may be familiar with Tamayo from an episode of Antiques Roadshow” in a “Missing Masterpieces” segment in May 2005.

“Tres Personajes, second version,” was sold in 1977 at a sale of modern pictures in Sotheby’s. In the fall of 1987, after its owners had placed the painting for safekeeping in an art storage warehouse, it was discovered that “Tres Personajes, second version,” along with several other pieces, was missing.

“Tres Personajes” was found among trash on a Manhattan street in 2003. Elizabeth Gibson, the woman who found the canvas, credited an ANTIQUES ROADSHOW FYI “Missing Masterpieces” segment about the painting for providing confirmation of her amazing find. On Nov. 20, 2007, “Tres Personajes” was sold to an undisclosed collector for $1.049 million in a Sotheby’s auction of Latin American art.“

For more information on the auction as well as the painting, you can check out Christie’s auction page.