Jose Yepez Arteaga (Ecuadorian b. 1898) Five Unstretched Oils on Canvas: Three Portraits of Indigenous People and a Genre Scene and L

Jose Yepez Arteaga (Ecuadorian, b. 1898) Five Unstretched Oils on Canvas: Three Portraits of Indigenous People and a Genre Scene , and Landscape with a Snow-capped Mountain . Signed "Yepez A." or "Yepez A./Quito" l.l. or l.r. Sizes to 19 x 33 in. Condition: Minor craquelure and surface grime. Provenance: Purchased in South America, most likely in the 1930s, by an American who traveled widely across the continent, with a focus on Ecuador. N.B. One of the paintings presents three individual portraits done on one canvas, each portrait signed, suggesting they were meant to be cut apart to become separate works.