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Winter 2007 Auction

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72. Oswaldo Guayasamin (Ecuadorian, 1919-1999)

Oil on canvas, signed in the lower right quadrant, not framed, approx. 55" x 39-1/2".

Oswaldo Guayasamin was born in Quito, the capital of Ecuador, on July 6, 1919. He graduated from the School of Fine Art in Quito as painter and sculptor. He carried out his first exhibit when he was 23, in 1942. He achieved in his youth all National Awards, and was credited, in 1952, at the age of 33, the Grand Award of the Biennial of Spain and later the Grand Award of the Biennial of Sao Paulo. His last exhibits were personally inaugurated in the Palace Museum of Luxemberg in Paris, and in the Museo Palais de Glace in Buenos Aires, in 1995.

40,000/60,000
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