Dorothy Braund 'Seaside' mixed media

Dorothy Braund 'Seaside' mixed mediaAustralian modernist Dorothy Braund pursued simplicity. As she described, it knocked her out theres no chance for accidental effects. If you are simple everything has to relate and work an ethos that steered her attitude towards art, producing work that was more musical than literal, hymns about people, places and activities. Throughout her oeuvre, Braund repeatedly returned to the beach. Like artists before and after her, she recognised the vital

This poignant portrait is the product of two years spent along the Kunene River in Africa

renowned for its surrealist and metaphysical directions

pressed onto paper – a wisp of ephemeral nature caught in eternity

The Australian Jewish Museum

Signed: numbered

filmmaker and political activist

Critic Robert Rooney likened Outlying Districts

represented in all major institutions and a recipient of an Order of Australia

Signed: Signed [in Hebrew] and titled in pencil in margin below image

The book becomes a container

titled and numbered in plate

A bold etching by Baldessin