Yosl Bergner 'The Adventurer, from The Kimberley Album' etching more precisely to ‘Alice's Book

more precisely to ‘Alice's Book of Butterflies’ series

‘From Kirribilli’ is a triumph of composition

recipient of prestigious international awards and honours

it breathes Peart's philosophical approach to landscape

'Mothers Love' 2004

Yosl Bergner 'The Adventurer, from The Kimberley Album' etching more precisely to ‘Alice's BookThe 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