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 Pear in the Landscape, Watercolor and…

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Samuel Bak
The Tablets of Stone, Oil pastel on…

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

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Bird, Oil pastel on paper, 36x46 cm,…

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276

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Samuel Bak
Soldiers and Missile Launcher, Oil on paper…

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

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

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14950

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House in the Landscape, Oil on canvas,…

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Samuel Bak
Pears, Oil on canvas, 41X33 cm, Signed.…

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6325

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Samuel Bak
Pots in Landscape, Oil pastel on paper,…

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Samuel Bak
Space, 1973, Pencil and pastel on paper,…

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920

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Samuel Bak
Composition, 1957, Gouache and collage on paper,…

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483

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Samuel Bak
A Pear, 1975 Sepia on paper, 30X23…

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920

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Samuel Bak
Untitled, 61, watercolor on paper, 25X17 cm,…

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299

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Samuel Bak
Bird, Oil pastel on paper, 22x31 cm,…

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690

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Samuel Bak
Untitled, 1959, Watercolor on paper, 25x36 cm,…

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368

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Samuel Bak
Still Life, Oil on canvas, 24X24 cm.…

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Samuel Bak
Letters, Pastel on paper, 42X50 cm. Signed.…

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7475

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

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8625

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Samuel Bak
Untitled, Oil on canvas, 80X65 cm. Signed.

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14950

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Samuel Bak
Bottles and Fruits in the Air, Oil…

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Samuel Bak
Landscape, 1964, Watercolor on paper, 26X35 cm.…

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Samuel Bak
Landscape, 1953, Watercolor on paper, 26X35 cm.…

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Samuel Bak
Landscape and sea, Oil on canvas, 50X61…

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

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

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16100

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Samuel Bak
Evening, Oil on canvas, 55X46 cm. Signed.…

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11500

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Samuel Bak
Still Life, Oil on canvas, 55X46 cm.…

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8625

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

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11500

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Samuel Bak
A Tree Emerging from an Egg, Oil…

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13225

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Samuel Bak
Landscape with Pears, Oil on canvas, 41.5X41.5…

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13800

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Samuel Bak
Ancient Industry, 1967, Oil on canvas, 24X35…

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2875

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Samuel Bak
The Key, Oil on canvas, 22X27 cm.…

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3680

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Samuel Bak
Still Life, Oil on canvas, 60X50 cm.…

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9660

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Samuel Bak
b. 1933 Between Black and White, 1990,…

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31050

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Samuel Bak
b. 1933 Chessboard, Oil on canvas, 81X100…

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