Yosl Bergner 'The Explorer and His Guide, from The Kimberley Album' women artists poetic work by one of

poetic work by one of Australia's most celebrated artists

Image Size: 71 x 107 cm

The etching is a pure celebration of parenthood and encapsulation of childlike innocence

Signed: signed CHARLES BLACKMAN and editioned AP in margin

Image Size: 20 x 15 cm

Yosl Bergner 'The Explorer and His Guide, from The Kimberley Album' women artists poetic work by one ofThe 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