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 : 457

Samuel Bak
Portrait, 1963, A marker on paper, 22x27…

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120

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Samuel Bak
Tables of the Ten Commandments, Pastel on…

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3000

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Samuel Bak
Pears, Oil on canvas, 65X53 cm. Signed.

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10000

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Samuel Bak
A Pigeon in the Trees, 1980, Oil…

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9500

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Samuel Bak
Still Mountain, Oil on canvas, 55X45 cm.…

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7000

Lot : 640

Samuel Bak
Chess Tools, 1970, mixed media on paper,…

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1000

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Samuel Bak
Clock, mixed media on paper laid down…

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2400

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Samuel Bak
Chess Tools in the Landscape, Oil on…

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10000

Lot : 56

Samuel Bak
Factory, Oil on canvas, 24X33 cm. Signed.

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7500

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

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5500

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Samuel Bak
Utensils, Bronze and iron, 50X50X50 cm. Signed.

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$3,000 - $5,000

Lot : 557

Samuel Bak
boat, Pastel on paper, 26X38 cm. Signed.

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460

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Samuel Bak
Displaced World, Oil on canvas, 24X24 cm.…

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2200

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Samuel Bak
Tablets of Stone, Oil on canvas, 60X60…

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7500

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Samuel Bak
Dark Passage, 1982, Oil on canvas, 50X61…

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5500

Lot : 36

Samuel Bak
Chess, Oil on canvas, 27X22 cm. Signed.

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2600

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Samuel Bak
Pear and a Bottle, Oil on canvas,…

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4400

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Samuel Bak
Figure, 2009, Oil on canvas, 76X61 cm.…

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9000

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Samuel Bak
House in the Desert, Oil on canvas,…

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4200

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Samuel Bak
Leaves, oil on cardboard laid down on canvas,…

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$1,800 - $2,500

Lot : 645

Samuel Bak
Landscape with a Factory, collage and watercolor…

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850

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Samuel Bak
Still Life, Oil on canvas, 46X38 cm.…

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4200

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Samuel Bak
Identi-Kit, Oil on canvas, 24X24 cm. Signed.…

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4000

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Samuel Bak
Candles, Oil on canvas, 41X24 cm. Signed.…

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5500

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Samuel Bak
Landscape with Pears, Oil on canvas, 41.X41.5…

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6500

Lot : 97

Samuel Bak
Tree Emerging from an Egg, Oil on…

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10000

Lot : 98

Samuel Bak
Landscape with Houses, 1971, Oil on canvas,…

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8000

Lot : 32

Samuel Bak
Landscape, watercolor on paper laid down on canvas, 24X31…

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$1,200 - $1,600

Lot : 10

Samuel Bak
Untitled, 1963, mixed media on paper, 36X27…

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110

Lot : 466

Samuel Bak
Industrial landscape, 1971, Pencil on paper, 56X48…

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575

Lot : 636

Samuel Bak
Still life according to Leonardo, 1964, Pencil…

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$400 - 600

Lot : 68

Samuel Bak
Jewish Landscape, 1976, Oil on canvas, 41X33…

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6900

Lot : 69

Samuel Bak
Factory, Oil on canvas, 40X54 cm. Signed.

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5290

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Samuel Bak
The Secret, Oil on canvas, 116X89 cm.…

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29900

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Samuel Bak
Figure, Oil on canvas, 41X24 cm. Signed.

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4600

Lot : 42

Samuel Bak
Landscape with Pears, Oil on canvas, 100X80…

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22425

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