Yosl Bergner 'From Alice Springs to the Kimberleys, from The Kimberley Album' nature

Yosl Bergner 'From Alice Springs to the Kimberleys, from The Kimberley Album' natureThe 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

Blackman revisits one of his favourite motifs - the feline

At once unyielding and symphonic

For collectors of international art and admirers of the Renaissance

he envisions a man battling a leopard

life and death

where he was heavily inspired by Colour Field and Abstract painting during the 1960s

or just know the value of a good view - Mr

The margin may need to be framed out due to markings

he explores what it means to exist in our 21st century world

textural image that captures three members of a family

Condition: fair

'Erotocello'