Arturo Nieto (1933–1995) was a largely self-taught Ecuadorian painter, printmaker and ceramist. In 1950s Bogotá he learned his techniques from painters including Carlos Fandiño and Jorge Carcavallo, and the support of the collector Olga Fisch brought him recognition in the United States, Germany and Israel. His mature figurative work, centred on people and everyday life, portrays the indigenous people of Ecuador alongside Catholic imagery.
Arturo Nieto (1933–1995), born Arturo Lenin Nieto Checa in Quito, Ecuador, was an Ecuadorian painter, printmaker and ceramist. Largely self-taught, he showed an early gift for drawing, reading and writing. As a young man he moved to Bogotá to join his older brother Manuel, a watercolourist established in the Colombian art scene. In Bogotá in the 1950s he moved in intellectual circles and was introduced to painters including Carlos Fandiño and Jorge Carcavallo, from whom he learned techniques in oil, acrylic, gouache, pen and ink. After his father’s death he returned to Quito, where in the 1970s he found his mature subject: the life of Ecuador’s indigenous people, alongside Catholic imagery. He received important support from the collector and designer Olga Fisch, who promoted his work abroad and helped bring him recognition in the United States, Germany and Israel. Nieto died in Quito in 1995. The pastel on paper “3 Women”, offered by TUMO Gallery, belongs to his characteristic figurative work centred on people and everyday life.
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