Art Wanted

Oswaldo Guayasamin

Oswaldo Guayasamin (1919 - 1999) was active/lived in United States, Ecuador.  Oswaldo Guayasamin is known for Expressionist paintings and sculptures focused on social issues and human suffering.

The following text was written and submitted by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California:


Oswaldo Guayasamin was born in 1919 in Quito, Ecuador.  He was the oldest of ten children in a poor family. He enrolled at Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Quito against his father's wishes and studied architecture and painting.   

Guayasamin is a passionate, plump and indefatigable Ecuadorian Indian  (the name means " white bird flying" in Inca). He studied with Orozco and has a similar social consciousness, amounting to aching rage at Man's inhumanities, and a similar range of technique, from abstraction to hammer-blunt realism.  But his subject matter, Equador, is all his own; he sees it as a tragic land.   

Following his first exhibition in Ecuador, he was invited by the US State Department to show in a traveling exhibit in the United States of America.  He also traveled to Peru, Chi   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1628 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

.  askART's database currently holds 422 auction lots for Oswaldo Guayasamin (of which 297 auction records sold and 0 are upcoming at auction.)

Artist artworks for sale and wanted

.  There are 0 artworks for sale on our website by galleries and art dealers . There are 1 galleries and art dealers listing works of art by Oswaldo Guayasamin as either "Wanted" or "For Sale" .

Research resources

.  askART lists Oswaldo Guayasamin in 0 of its research Essays. Oswaldo Guayasamin has 17 artist signature examples available in our database.

Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Oswaldo Guayasamin available:    Gunther Gerzso,  Eduardo Kingman,  Rene Portocarrero,  Alfredo Ramos Martinez,  Emilio Pettoruti,  Rufino Tamayo,  David Alfaro Siqueiros,  Leonora Carrington,  Carlos Merida,  Francisco Zuniga,  Victor Manuel,  Francisco Benjamin Lopez Toledo,  Pedro Friedeberg,  Cundo Bermudez,  Joaquin Torres-Garcia,  Diego Rivera,  Alicia Perez Penalba,  Remedios Varo Uranga,  Miguel Covarrubias,  Georges Rouault,  Manuel Mendive,  Tomas Sanchez,  Angel Botello,  Pedro Coronel