Yosl Bergner 'The Kimberley Album' women artists

Yosl Bergner 'The Kimberley Album' women artistsThe story behind The Kimberly Album 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,

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a detailed telling of its subject

works on paper and the female form

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Despite the spontaneity Naina's gesture

Sebastian Smee wrote that he is singular: “there is nobody really like him and important… his commitment unmistakable

‘Wet Noon’ however

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Considered an enfant terrible in the Australian art world

In 1983 Rankin won the Wynne Prize

desires and memories of its audience