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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Samuel Bak
A Girl with a Hat, 1972, Pastel…

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1100

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Samuel Bak
House, oil on canvas, 33X24 cm. signed.…

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2800

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Samuel Bak
Hammer and Key, Oil on canvas, 33X24…

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2600

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

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3600

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Samuel Bak
Tablets of Stone, Oil on canvas, 60x60…

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8000

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Samuel Bak
House, Oil on canvas, 19X22 cm. Signed.

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1900

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Samuel Bak
Pears, Oil on cardboard , 76X56 cm.…

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5000

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Samuel Bak
Pear, 1972 Watercolor and colored pencil on…

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750

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Samuel Bak
Cloud, oil on canvas, 24X18.5 cm. signed.…

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1500

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Samuel Bak
Kettle and a Cup, oil on canvas,…

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1100

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Samuel Bak
Figures, 1995, pastel and sepia on paper,…

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1200

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Samuel Bak
Pears and Bottles, Oil and ink on…

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4000

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Samuel Bak
City of Stones, Oil and marker on…

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2800

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Samuel Bak
Figures, Oil on canvas, 24X24 cm. Signed.

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$3,000 - $5,000

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Samuel Bak
Around and Around, Oil on canvas, 24X24…

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2600

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Samuel Bak
Buildings, Oil on canvas, 54X65 cm. Signed.

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4500

Lot : 49

Samuel Bak
Moon, 2003 Oil on canvas, 61X45 cm.…

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7500

Lot : 50

Samuel Bak
Still Life with a Pear, 1985 Oil…

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10000

Lot : 67

Samuel Bak
Rosa Green, Tempera on board, 102X42 cm.…

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5500

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Samuel Bak
Still Life with Leaves, Oil on canvas,…

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6000

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Samuel Bak
Time Pears, oil on canvas, 50X50 cm.…

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1500

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Samuel Bak
Cart, oil on canvas, 22X19 cm. Signed.

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1500

Lot : 317

Samuel Bak
Trees, Pastel on paper, 47X61 cm, Signed…

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800

Lot : 413

Samuel Bak
Bed, 1967, mixed media on paper, 16x22…

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400

Lot : 414

Samuel Bak
Bottles and a Pear, gouache on paper,…

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600

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Samuel Bak
Houses, 1973, Oil on canvas, 73X100 cm.…

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9000

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Samuel Bak
Bottle and Ball, Oil on canvas, 76X61…

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8750

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Samuel Bak
A Sofa and Trees, Oil on canvas,…

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$3,500 - $5,000

Lot : 59

Samuel Bak
A Girl with a Hat, 1972, Pastel…

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$3,000 - $4,000

Lot : 60

Samuel Bak
Chess Tools, 2002, Oil on canvas, 61X91…

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17000

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Samuel Bak
Invisible Fruit, Oil on canvas, 41X27 cm.…

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3000

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Samuel Bak
Pears, Oil on canvas, 53x64 cm. Signed.

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4200

Lot : 49

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

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7500

Lot : 50

Samuel Bak
Still Life, Oil on canvas, 65x50 cm.…

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7000

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Samuel Bak
House in Pear, 1966, watercolor and ink…

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500

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Samuel Bak
Tea, oil on canvas, 19X33 cm. Signed.Provenance:…

Estimated price:

$2,000 - $3,000

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