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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

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