Yosl Bergner 'The Impresario, from The Kimberley Album' expressionism finished quality that has come

finished quality that has come to define Balls abstract forms

speckles of forest twinkling in the distance

any addition to the species is significant

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Yosl Bergner 'The Impresario, from The Kimberley Album' expressionism finished quality that has comeThe 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