Lot 66

Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
Private collection, Melbourne

"A characteristic of much of Yosl Bergner's painting is the suggestion of theatrical space, the volume of a stage: a steep, diminished perspective in which the front plane rises almost to the top edge of the picture. The different objects are arranged on this plane in such a way that what is higher, is in fact further away from the eye of the observer. It is a perspective which has something naïve about it and is reminiscent of the early paintings of the Middle Ages. It is also a pictorial approach which suits Bergner as a designer for the theatre."
Rodi Bineth-Perry