Yosl Bergner 'The Explorer and His Guide, from The Kimberley Album' women artists Image Size: 67 x 48

Image Size: 67 x 48 cm

Image Size: 71 x 107 cm

Each work takes its title from the final paragraph of Joyce’s long short story

Signed: Partially signed lower left corner and inscribed 44

Dimensions: 47 x 39 x 1 cm

Yosl Bergner 'The Explorer and His Guide, from The Kimberley Album' women artists Image Size: 67 x 48The 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