Havdalah Spice Holders, 1970's, silkscreen, 30x20.5" (75x52cm), image size: 19x16.5'' (49x42 cm), edition 150, hand-signed in Hebrew and numbered in pencil.
Print is in excellent condition and is unframed.
You are buying this print direclty from its publisher, Bineth Gallery.
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Yosl Bergner , born in 1920 in Vienna, is a son of the Yiddish poet, Melech Ravitch. In 1937 he immigrated to Australia where he served the armed forces. In 1948 he left Australia for Paris. Two years later Bergner arrived to Israel and settled in Safed and afterwards in Tel Aviv. He participated in numerous exhibitions in Melbourne, Paris, Tel-Aviv New York and in the Venice Biennale and the Sao Paulo Biennale. Bergner had a retrospective show at the Tel-Aviv Museum of Art in the year 2000. "He paints still lives as though to install stabilizers against the turbulence of the dream, and perhaps these stabilizers serve him in time as a touchstone." Nissim Aloni, 1983 The Surrealism served as a source of inspiration for Bergner, though he does 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.
Iron is a lively and surrealistic still-life portraying a heavy metal iron as an old and rickety shack. Bergner was preoccupied with the Jewish immigrants who arrived to Israel with their old personal belongings including dishes, beddings, furniture. This beautiful silkscreen is an excellent example of Bergner's Surrealistic influence, and his successful attempts to turn these daily domestic items into live objects.
A selection of catalogues and books of Yosl Bergner's exhibitions is available.
* * * An official CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY issued by Bineth Gallery (Tel Aviv, Israel) will be provided with this work upon request * * *
Starting bid of this lot is $70
Print is in excellent condition and is unframed.
You are buying this print direclty from its publisher, Bineth Gallery.
For further information about this artist, please log on to our eBay store or to our gallery (Bineth Gallery) website.
Yosl Bergner , born in 1920 in Vienna, is a son of the Yiddish poet, Melech Ravitch. In 1937 he immigrated to Australia where he served the armed forces. In 1948 he left Australia for Paris. Two years later Bergner arrived to Israel and settled in Safed and afterwards in Tel Aviv. He participated in numerous exhibitions in Melbourne, Paris, Tel-Aviv New York and in the Venice Biennale and the Sao Paulo Biennale. Bergner had a retrospective show at the Tel-Aviv Museum of Art in the year 2000. "He paints still lives as though to install stabilizers against the turbulence of the dream, and perhaps these stabilizers serve him in time as a touchstone." Nissim Aloni, 1983 The Surrealism served as a source of inspiration for Bergner, though he does 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.
Iron is a lively and surrealistic still-life portraying a heavy metal iron as an old and rickety shack. Bergner was preoccupied with the Jewish immigrants who arrived to Israel with their old personal belongings including dishes, beddings, furniture. This beautiful silkscreen is an excellent example of Bergner's Surrealistic influence, and his successful attempts to turn these daily domestic items into live objects.
A selection of catalogues and books of Yosl Bergner's exhibitions is available.
* * * An official CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY issued by Bineth Gallery (Tel Aviv, Israel) will be provided with this work upon request * * *
Starting bid of this lot is $70
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Jewish, Israeli and International Fine Art
1:00 PM PT - Jul 27th, 2008
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Bineth Gallery
15 Frishman st.
Tel-Aviv, 63578
Tel-Aviv, 63578



