





Samuel Bak(born 1933)Hidden Tikkun
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Samuel Bak (born 1933)
signed and dated 'Bak 99' (lower left); with a label from Pucker Gallery, Boston, MA (affixed to the backing)
oil on canvas
38.1 x 38.1 cm (15 x 15 in).
framed 54.9 x 54.9 x 7.0 cm (21 5/8 x 21 5/8 x 2 3/4 in).
Footnotes
Literature
Art-Archives, Kunst Archive Website Catalog Raisonné of Samuel Bak: https://www.kunst-archive.net/en/wvz/samuel_bak/works/hidden_tikkun/type/all
Lawrence L. Langer, In A Different Light: The Book of Genesis in the Art of Samuel Bak, (Boston: Pucker Gallery, 2001), ill. pp. 61-62.
Samuel Bak, In a Different Light: Genesis in the Art of Samuel Bak, (Boston: Pucker Gallery, 2000), ill. p. 30.
Exhibited
Pucker Gallery, Boston, MA, In a Different Light: Genesis in the Art of Samuel Bak, November 11 - December 12, 2000.
N.B.
Born 1933 in Vilna, Poland at the eve of the Nazi invasion, Samuel Bak was only eight years old when the area came under German and Soviet occupation, and only a year later Bak had his first public exhibition of his work in the Ghetto of Vilna. As World War II came to an end, Bak and his mother fled to the Landsberg Displaced Persons Camps, where he continued his artistic education. Following, the pair settled in newly formed Israel in 1948 though Bak soon travel to Pairs to further his studies in 1956.
Samuel Bak has exhibited consistently since then and has received international acclaim for his treatment of themes within his painting, related to the genocide and liberation of the Jewish people. Notable exhibitions include retrospectives at Yad Vashem Museum in Jerusalem, and the South African Jewish Museum in Cape Town as well as solo exhibitions at the Bezalel National Museum in Jerusalem and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Samuel Bak currently resides outside of Boston, MA and many of his recent works are exhibited at the Pucker Gallery, Boston.
Tikkun means 'repair' in Hebrew, and Tikkun olam refers to the concept of 'Mending the world'.