Yosl Bergner 'The Adventurer, from The Kimberley Album' romantic

Yosl Bergner 'The Adventurer, from The Kimberley Album' romanticThe 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

This poetic work exemplifies Blackman's mastery of graphic practices

carries on his father’s legacy with this powerful painting

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titled and numbered in pencil in margin below image: 34/50 Iddo’s Cat – 18-5-89 Shy Snir

This work is mounted on foam core

depict architecture

A proclamation of faith and love

In ‘Shipwreck II’

Very minor imperfections

and master printmaker

why can t it be both

In ‘White Rhino’ John Olsen pays tribute to this