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Aborigines
(1946); dated 1944
Yosl BERGNER
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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
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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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