Yosl Bergner
(1920 - 2017)
FROM ALICE SPRINGS TO KIMBERLEY (1937), 1990
oil on linen
97.0 x 116.0 cm
120.0 x 139.0 cm (frame)
signed and dated lower left: Y. Bergner 90
signed, dated and inscribed with title verso: Yosl Bergner / "FROM ALICE SPRINGS / TO KIMBERLEY"/ 1990
Estimate:
$12,000 - $16,000
Sold:
$23,818 (inc. BP)
© courtesy of the artist
lot details
120.0 x 139.0 cm (frame)
signed, dated and inscribed with title verso: Yosl Bergner / "FROM ALICE SPRINGS / TO KIMBERLEY"/ 1990
Melbourne Contemporary Art Gallery, Melbourne
The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, Melbourne, acquired from the above
Exhibited
Yosl Bergner: The Kimberley’s Fantasy, Melbourne Contemporary Art Gallery, Melbourne, 17 October – 6 November 1990, cat. 17
BUS Art Collection, Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong, New South Wales, 16 March – 12 April 1992, cat. 70
on long term loan to Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria
Literature
Nainby, B., Stanhope, Z., and Furlonger, K., The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, in association with Latrobe Regional Gallery, Melbourne, 2009, pp. 146 (illus.), 213
Epstein, A., Melekh Ravitsh: The Eccentric Outback Quest of an Urbane Yiddish Poet from Poland, Real Film and Publishing, Melbourne, 2019, p. 86 (illus.)