What I meant to say : stories and travels as told to Ruth Bondy (signed presentation copy wth a small drawing by Yosl Bergner)

A$275 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Signed

[Tel Aviv] : Hed Arzi Book Pub, 1997. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 223, illustrated. This copy with a signed presentation inscription to art historian, author and publisher Jenny Zimmer with a small pencil drawing by Bergner. The painter Yosl Bergner was born in Vienna in 1920, arrived in Australia in 1937 and migrated to Israel in 1950. Melbourne scholar, Frank Klepner, provides a richly-detailed history of Bergner s Australian years and provides well-researched and previously unpublished insights into the artist s principal themes. Bergner first exhibited with Arthur Boyd and Noel Counihan in Melbourne in 1939 and from then he developed an increasingly social-realist approach to painting. Today, he is one of Israel s leading painters, but he continues to visit and exhibit works in Australia. from the monograph Jenny Zimmer published on Yosl Bergner. Yosl Bergner passed away in 2017 at the age of 96.

• Binding: Hardcover

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