SAMUEL BAK (B. 1933) A Return to Paradise signed and dated 'BAK 96' (lower left) oil on canvas 44 1/8 x 50 in (112.0 x 127.0 cm) Painted in 1996 Footnotes: Provenance Pucker Gallery, Boston, MA. Norman and Myrna Katz Collection, Massachusetts (acquired from the above). Literature S. B. Schäfer, Catalog Raisonné of Samuel Bak, Germany, online catalogue. Exhibited Boston, Pucker Gallery, SAMUEL BAK. In the Presence of Figures, October 10 - December 12, 1998. Born 1933 in Vilna, Poland, Samuel Bak was only eight years old when the area came under German and Soviet occupation, and just a year later held his first public exhibition 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. The pair then settled in newly formed Israel in 1948, though Bak soon traveled to Paris to further his studies in 1956. Samuel Bak has exhibited consistently since then and has received international acclaim for his artistic treatment of themes 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. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing