Samuel Rabin

Tense Moment Study

Watercolour and pastel on board Image size: 12 x 15 inches (30.5 x 38 cm)

Gouache on board, signed lower left Image size: 18 x 15 inches  (46 x 38 cm) Contemporary frame This painting illustrates a passage from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses', specifically from th...

British School Mid 20th Century The Cricket Match Oil on board Image size: 18 x 24 inches (46 cm x 61 cm)

Oil on board Image size: 5 3/4 x 7 inches (14.5 x 17.75 cm) As can be seen in this painting, Surrealism served as a source of inspiration for Bergner, though he did not consider himself a surrealist but a lover of stories, and indeed narrative elements appear frequently in his work. He uses the “displacement” element, as the Surrealists did, and that is detaching the figures, objects or landscapes from the logical context and into a poetical-magical climate. Nissim Aloni noted in 1983 He paints as though to install stabilizers against the turbulence of the dream, and perhaps these stabilizers serve him in time as a touchstone'. The Artist Yosl Bergner was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1920 and grew up in Warsaw, Poland. With rampant anti-Semitism in Europe, the Freeland League for Jewish Territorial Colonization was formed in the United States in July 1935, to search for a potential Jewish homeland. Soon afterwards a pastoral firm in Australia offered the League about 16,500 square kilometres (6,400 sq mi) in the Kimberleys, stretching from the north of Western Australia into the Northern Territory. As history showed, the plans went nowhere. But for a time, the Australian idea was at least worth considering. Bergner's father, Melech Ravitch, became involved in a serious investigation of the Kimberley Plan. In this way the Bergner family moved to Australia. Yosl emigrated to Australia in 1937 and studied in the National Gallery School in Melbourne. During World War II he served for four and a half years in the Australian Army, and later continued his studies at the Art School. In Melbourne from 1937–48, Bergner befriended many of the local artists who now epitomize modern Australian art: Sidney Nolan, Albert Tucker...

Mayer 20th Century Figurine Oil on board, signed lower right Image size: 16 x 13 inches Contemporary frame

Gouache on card, signed lower left Image size: 14 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches (36 x 31 cm) Contemporary style frame Joan Fairfax Whiteside Joan Fairfax Whiteside was a prodigious artist an...

Spirituality and Christianity played an important role for Hamstra in, as he put it himself, 'the making' of his artworks. combined, he wanted to create a powerful, almost ghostly sa...

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Joanna Commings Dance Movement 2 Original Abstract Figure Painting Acrylics and wax crayon on paper unframed 87 x 60 cm (Please note that in situ images are purely an indication of h...

Ford Crull explore the expressive power of personal and cultural symbols in a series of densely painted and vividly colored compositions. He uses identifiable images such as hearts, ...

Ford Crull explore the expressive power of personal and cultural symbols in a series of densely painted and vividly colored compositions. He uses identifiable images such as hearts, ...

Ford Crull explore the expressive power of personal and cultural symbols in a series of densely painted and vividly colored compositions. He uses identifiable images such as hearts, ...