Yosl Bergner 'The Explorer and His Guide, from The Kimberley Album' women artists Each work takes its title

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

Dimensions: 47 x 39 x 1 cm

The evolution of Leach-Jones’s pictorial language is amply reflected in his prints

Image Size: 71 x 107 cm

Signed: Partially signed lower left corner and inscribed 44

Yosl Bergner 'The Explorer and His Guide, from The Kimberley Album' women artists Each work takes its titleThe 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