Yosl Bergner 'The Message, from The Kimberley Album' cool tones - An edition of this

- An edition of this work is represented at the National Gallery of Australia

This screenprint demonstrates Amor’s mind at work: his understanding of atmosphere

Gentle has more than forty exhibitions to his credit as well as various residencies at the Royal Botanic Gardens and Hill End

Image Size: 42 x 31 cm

but not straightforwardly so: despite the doctor’s advice and her limited vision

Yosl Bergner 'The Message, from The Kimberley Album' cool tones - An edition of thisThe 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