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Dutary, Alberto
(b Panama City, 3 July 1932; d Panama City, 23 March 1998). Panamanian painter and printmaker. He studied at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas in Panama City and at the Real Academia San Fernando and the Escuela Nacional de Artes Gráficas in Madrid, where he held his first one-man show in 1957 before returning to Panama. Although he was always a figurative painter, in paintings such as Figures at Twilight (1960; Washington, DC, A. Mus. Americas; see PANAMA, fig. 3) and in his series of over 50 works, Saints, in the early 1960s (e.g. Mocking Saint, 1962; Panama City, Mus. A. Contemp.), he combined the rich surface textures of Spanish informal abstraction with mysterious ghost figures expressing an Existentialist point of view. In spite of their apparent simplicity, such pictures as Objects for a Ceremony (1973) and the Consumer as Clay (1968; both Panama City, Mus. A. Contemp.) are full of symbolic and mythic associations as well as social criticism. In Dutary’s later works his iconography became less varied, with a preference for tall, ascetic women and female mannequins as virtually interchangeable figures. Dutary’s paintings, drawings, pastels and lithographs were exhibited widely in Panama and abroad. He also helped promote the arts in Panama as one of the founders in 1962 of the Instituto Panameño de Arte and through his teaching in schools and at the Universidad de Panamá.
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