Samuel Bak

b .1933
He was born in Vilna in 1933. When World War II began, Bak was sent with his family to the Vilna Ghetto where he exhibited his first paintings, he was 9 years old at the time. He immigrated to Israel in 1948 with his mother and began studying at the Bezalel Academy of Art. In 1952, Bak completed his studies at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He began developing his familiar artistic style - figurative surrealism - when he lived in Italy between 1959 and 1966. The Holocaust is an essential and central part of his paintings i which he creates a surrealistic language that describes fragil occurrences and dreamy and impossible situations, as this type of art stream requires. For decades now, he paints between six and eight hours a day. During this incessant work he has built a reservoir of images that keep appearing in many variations and by now have become his art’s earmarks, in which the whole reality becomes a frozen still life. His work deals with memories of the Holocaust, but in fact it hovers beyond the documentation of memory or dealing with art as a treatment for post-trauma.

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Lot : 21

Samuel Bak
Untitled, 1965, Oil on canvas, 65x55 cm.…

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$5,000 - $8,000

Lot : 22

Samuel Bak
The Key, Oil on canvas, 41x24 cm.…

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$4,000 - $6,000

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Samuel Bak
Chess, Oil on canvas, 100x81 cm. Signed.

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$15,000 - $20,000

Previous auctions

Lot : 306

Samuel Bak
Bird, Pastel and sepia on paper, 65x50…

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1600

Lot : 309

Samuel Bak
Landscape, Oil on canvas, 24x35 cm. Signed.

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6000

Lot : 412

Elias Newman
Yad Avshalom, Jerusalem, 1935, Watercolor on paper,…

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380

Lot : 21

Samuel Bak
Pears in a Sandbox, Oil on canvas,…

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4800

Lot : 40

Samuel Bak
A Bird in the Desert, Oil on…

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9000

Lot : 41

Samuel Bak
Banishment, 2000, Pastel on paper, 76x56 cm.…

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1800

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Samuel Bak
Houses, Pastel on paper, 42X50 cm. Signed.

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1500

Lot : 19

Samuel Bak
Figure, 1977, pastel on paper, 22x17 cm,…

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500

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Samuel Bak
Pears, Oil on canvas, 46x55 cm. Signed.

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4600

Lot : 18

Samuel Bak
Pears in the Landscape, Oil on canvas,…

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7500

Lot : 74

Samuel Bak
Chimneys, Oil on canvas, 93x72 cm. Signed.

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7000

Lot : 75

Samuel Bak
Symposium, 1996, Oil on canvas, 56x67 cm.…

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5500

Lot : 2

Samuel Bak
In the Desert, 1967, oil on canvas,…

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2600

Lot : 46

Samuel Bak
On Scorched Earth, 1986 Oil on canvas,…

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4400

Lot : 47

Samuel Bak
Landscape with Tower, 1973, Oil on canvas,…

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$12,000 - $16,000

Lot : 82

Samuel Bak
Untitled, 1961, watercolor on paper, 25x18 cm.…

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200

Lot : 3

Samuel Bak
Bottles and Pears on the Table, oil…

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2800

Lot : 40

Samuel Bak
Castle with a Pear, 1994, Oil on…

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15000

Lot : 41

Samuel Bak
Escort, 1967, Oil on canvas, 46X38 cm.…

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3400

Lot : 42

Samuel Bak
Pears, Oil on canvas, 60X53 cm. Signed.

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7000

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Samuel Bak
A City in the Mountains, oil on…

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2400

Lot : 593

Samuel Bak
Figure and Fruit, Charcoal and pencil on…

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650

Lot : 25

Samuel Bak
Element of Change, 1991, Oil on canvas,…

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9000

Lot : 26

Samuel Bak
The Eternal Promise, 1991, Oil on canvas,…

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16000

Lot : 49

Samuel Bak
Figures and Missile, Oil on paper laid…

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4400

Lot : 50

Samuel Bak
Landscape, Oil on canvas, 50X60 cm. Signed.

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4000

Lot : 51

Samuel Bak
Teapot in the Landscape, Oil on canvas,…

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5500

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Samuel Bak
Older Model, oil on canvas, 55X46 cm.…

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4200

Lot : 39

Samuel Bak
Once Upon a Time III, 1985 Oil…

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6000

Lot : 40

Samuel Bak
From Generation to Generation and Beyond, 1996,…

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12000

Lot : 41

Samuel Bak
That is the Question, 1989, Oil on…

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18000

Lot : 79

Samuel Bak
Houses and Key, Oil on canvas, 38X46…

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4800

Lot : 80

Samuel Bak
Still Life, Watercolor on paper, 70X100 cm.…

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5500

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