The painting by my late father included above, titled Cyclonic offshoot (oil on composition board, 117.0 x 175.0 cm, ca.1969), was sold at auction in Sydney from the Hookers Ltd. Collection about twenty-five years ago. I found that it has been offered again at auction, at Philips in Melbourne, but was offered as a painting by my uncle, who is still alive.

I find this ongoing confusion between the two brothers’ art a continual frustration or bemusement, as their signatures, if not the work itself, is quite distinct. I have asked John Furphy to make corrections for the various provenances in the Australian Art Sales Digest. For those interested, my father’s various signatures are included on the title page of the monograph titled A Matter of Mind, beginning with “Dutkie” or some variation thereof (to 1954), “W.D.”, and occasionally “W. Dutkiewicz”; my uncle’s signature is usually a carefully written script of “L. Dutkiewicz”. Below is an example of his work.

Three more paintings by W. Dukiewicz have been discovered by my Melbourne friend Bogumila Zongollowicz. The best one looks like a cooking scene, dating ca.1952 (below).

The painting included below by W. Dutkiewicz, has turned up in a private collection in Melbourne. It’s a fairly typical example of his figurative painting from ca.1968. The subject might be one of my sisters.

The Past Presidents’ Exhibition at the Royal S. A. Society of Arts in April-May brought together most of the living artists who have filled the role and presented work by Presidents dating back to 1909. It was mounted as part of the 150th anniversary celebrations.

Above: Adam addressing the gathering at the opening, with current President Bev Bills.
His acrylic and pastel painting Opal cutter (1989) is in the background.

A few people have asked me to include some of my work from my December 2006 retrospective exhibition on this site. I did have a lengthy entry about the exhibition up for a month or so but removed most of it in a rethink a few months back: I have continued to have trouble with the page so an abridged version only exists as an unpublished post in previous entries of my News section. However, you can see Asia, one of my favourite paintings from the early 1990s, in my Biographical page on the main menu, and I have posted a number of images of my paintings from my retrospective exhibition there also.

Below I have included several works from my 2003 exhibition at Light Square Gallery. The first two are pastels from my Organic Constructivism series. The one on the right was also in the Past Presidents’ exhibition. The other paintings are oils: Cool World, Gothic, Frozen World and Garden.
Photographs: Michal Dutkiewicz