Yosl Bergner 'The Stranger, from The Kimberley Album' street art Barbara - whose writing frequently

Barbara - whose writing frequently inspired Charles and shaped much of his creative output

with their son

Image Size: 32 x 67 cm

carries on his father’s legacy with the vibrant ‘Hope

Signed: Hand SIGNED by Charles Blackman upper right

Yosl Bergner 'The Stranger, from The Kimberley Album' street art Barbara - whose writing frequentlyThe 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