Yosl Bergner 'Arrival, from The Kimberley Album' italian artists

Yosl Bergner 'Arrival, from The Kimberley Album' italian artistsThe 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

Within her preferred subject

it is also about a boy

sun and our attention

hair wind-swept and lips pursed

'Biggles the Biting Cat' 1983

This work is as much an ode to Alice in Wonderland as it is to Auguste’s childhood

Image Size: 22 x 18 cm

a lovelorn maiden contemplating a proposal or an adolescent on the cusp of adulthood

Image Size: 19 x 24 cm

regardless of appearance are fallible

Alun Leach-Jones was among the artists christened at the landmark 1968 exhibition

While tranquility reigns here