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Aborigines

Aborigines
 (1946); dated 1944

Medium
oil on composition board
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of the artist, 1979
© Estate of the artist
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Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Medium
oil on composition board
Measurements
94.2 × 63.8 cm
Place/s of Execution
Melbourne, Victoria
Inscription
inscribed in brown paint l.l.: J. BerGner.
inscribed in red fibre-tipped pen on reverse u.c.: YOSL BERGNER. "PRISONERS" 1944
Accession Number
A6-1979
Department
Australian Painting
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of the artist, 1979
© Estate of the artist
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation
Reproduction requests
Gallery location
Not on display
Subjects (general)
Emotions and Mental States Human Figures Violence
Subjects (specific)
chains (object genres) imprisonment indigenous people men (male humans) political art social realism suffering

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