Yosl Bergner 'The Message, from The Kimberley Album' cool tones Image Size: 42 x 31

Image Size: 42 x 31 cm

It is both a tribute and an absurdist

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

completed by Lymburner prior to his death

this work is for you

Yosl Bergner 'The Message, from The Kimberley Album' cool tones Image Size: 42 x 31The 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