Flight - Illustration for Herz Bergner's novel Between sky and sea
(c. 1944)
Medium
oil on canvas on composition board
Measurements
56.6 × 51.5 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Joseph Brown Collection. Presented through the NGV Foundation by Dr Joseph Brown AO, OBE, Honorary Life Benefactor, 2005
© Courtesy of Bridget McDonnell Gallery
Gallery location
Gallery 20
Level 3, NGV Australia
About this work
With the rise of fascism in Europe and the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, the subsequent influx of European immigrants to Australia offered socially aware artists, including Vic O’Connor, a graphic vision of social isolation and cultural dislocation. This painting was used as the frontispiece for a story written by Yosl Bergner’s uncle which evocatively captured the momentous struggle and journey of Europe’s dispossessed Jewish people.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Melbourne, Victoria
Inscription
inscribed in brown paint l.r.: VG O'CONNOR
Accession Number
2005.451
Department
Australian Painting
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation
Subjects (general)
Human Figures Literary and Text Military and Warfare
Subjects (specific)
children (people by age group) luggage men (male humans) refugees roads ruins women (female humans)