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 : 348

Samuel Bak
Untitled, 1965 Watercolor and gouache on paper,…

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640

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Samuel Bak
Pictures, Pencil gouache and collage on paper,…

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780

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Samuel Bak
Chess Pastel on paper 23x31 cm. Signed.…

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750

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Samuel Bak
Landscape Watercolor on paper laid down on…

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$1,500 - $2,000

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Samuel Bak
Landscape with Bottles Mixed media on paper…

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900

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Samuel Bak
Landscape, watercolor on paper laid down on…

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1200

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Samuel Bak
Landscape, Oil on canvas, 41X93 cm. Signed.

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6000

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Samuel Bak
Bottles and Pears, Mixed media on paper…

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$1,000 - $1,500

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Samuel Bak
Pear, Bottles and Glasses in the Landscape,…

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6000

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Samuel Bak
Figure with a Bird, Mixed media on…

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1700

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Samuel Bak
Pears and Vessels, 1991, Oil on canvas,…

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5500

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Samuel Bak
Tea, Oil on canvas, 19X33 cm. Signed.…

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$3,000 - $4,000

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Samuel Bak
Bird, 1989, Oil on canvas, 65X50 cm.…

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7500

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Samuel Bak
The Light and the Dark, 1991, Oil…

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30000

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Samuel Bak
A Bottle and Pears Pastel on paper…

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650

Lot : 479

Samuel Bak
Vase and a Bird Pencil on paper…

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1000

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Samuel Bak
Landscape with a Moon Watercolor and gouache…

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2600

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Samuel Bak
Pear Oil on canvas, 16x12 cm. Signed.…

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1300

Lot : 482

Samuel Bak
Landscape with Still Life, Watercolor and gouache…

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800

Lot : 574

Samuel Bak
Cathedral De Chartres, 1958 Mixed media on…

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300

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Samuel Bak
Pear and Soldier at the River Bank,…

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6000

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Samuel Bak
Transport, Oil on canvas, 76X100 cm. Signed.…

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9000

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Samuel Bak
Landscape, Oil on canvas, 41X92 cm. Signed.…

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5500

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Samuel Bak
Factory, Oil on canvas, 65X46 cm. Signed.…

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3600

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Samuel Bak
Together, 1996, Oil on canvas, 60X67 cm.…

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8000

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Samuel Bak
Still Life, 1989, Oil on canvas, 81X65…

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11000

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Samuel Bak
Permanent Flight, 1991, Oil on canvas, 54X65…

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12000

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Samuel Bak
The Crushed Teapot, Oil on canvas, 19X27…

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1800

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Samuel Bak
Pear, oil on canvas, 35X27 cm. Signed.

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3400

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Samuel Bak
Bottles and Pears, Oil on canvas, 41X41…

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3800

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Samuel Bak
Landscape, Oil on canvas, 50X61 cm. Signed.

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7000

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Samuel Bak
Bird and Pears, Oil on canvas, 61X50…

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7500

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Samuel Bak
Middle (age) Man, Oil on canvas, 116X89…

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22000

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Samuel Bak
Figures, Pastel on paper, 65X50 cm. Signed.

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3200

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Samuel Bak
Time Stood Still, 1965, Oil on board,…

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6000

Lot : 65

Samuel Bak
Pear, 1975, Oil on canvas, 45X33 cm.…

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5500

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