SAMUEL BAK (Israeli/American, born 1933) Horsepower signed and dated 'BAK / 98' (lower left); titled (on the stretcher); with a label from Pucker Gallery, Boston (affixed to the frame backing) oil on canvas 67.0 x 66.0 cm (26 3/8 x 26 in). framed 81.0 x 81.0 x 6.7 cm (32 x 32 x 2 5/8 in). Footnotes: Provenance The Pucker Gallery, Boston. A private collection, Massachusetts (acquired from the previous, 2000). Literature Lawrence L. Langer, An Unimaginable Partnership: The Art of Samuel Bak and the Writings of Lawrence L. Langer (Boston: Pucker Art Publications, 2022), illustrated p. 93. Lawrence L. Langer, The Game Continues: Chess in the Art of Samuel Bak (Boston: Pucker Art Publications, 1999), pp. 12, 73 (illustrated). Exhibited Boston, Pucker Gallery, The Game Continues: Chess in the Art of Samuel Bak, February 5-March 1, 2000, no. 18. N.B. This work is included in the online Samuel Bak Catalogue Raisonné. The entry can be accessed via this link: https://www.kunst-archive.net/en/wvz/samuel_bak/works/horsepower_1489/type/all. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing