Yosl Bergner 'The Explorer and His Guide, from The Kimberley Album' architecture

Yosl Bergner 'The Explorer and His Guide, from The Kimberley Album' architectureThe story behind this work is stranger than fiction. It begins in 1933 when Yiddish poet, playwright, essayist and activist Melech Ravitch (a pseudonym for Zekharye Khone Bergner) left Europe in search of a new home for Europes increasingly threatened Jewish population. He arrived in Australia with the fantasy that among the Kimberleys lied the Promised Land for his people. Decades later his son, the acclaimed artist Yosl Bergner, memorialised this

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Brian SEIDEL (1928 - )

Image Size: 60 x 45 cm

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Auguste Blackman

yet firmly rooted in coastal Victoria

Alun LEACH-JONES (1937 - )

His muted palette

In ‘The First Mold… with Y’

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any addition to the species is significant

inspired by his brother Arthur