Vintage Samuel Bak Artist Proof Serigraph Menorah
Updated September 6, 2026
| Lot number | 188 |
| Category | Fine Art & Prints |
| Auction | LISTED ARTISTS FINE ART & WORKS ON PAPER FIVE |
| Date | October 5, 2026 at 6:00 PM MDT |
| Auction house | Anything2Auction |
| Location | Rio Rancho, New Mexico |
32.25" X 40.75" FRAMED Bak, Samuel (American/Israeli, b.1933), Variant VI (blue, light blue, light and dark brown, grey, green, and black, light brown frame) Samuel Bak survived the destruction of the Vilna ghetto and immigrated with his mother to Jerusalem in 1948, where he studied at the Bezalel School of Art and Design. After studying in Paris and Rome, he eventually settled in the Boston area. Bak’s work weaves together personal and Jewish history to articulate an iconography of his Holocaust experience. In Bak’s images, there is always evidence of a world destroyed—crumbling stone, fragments of architecture. Here, the iconic menorah of the Temple in Jerusalem balances precariously atop a desolate surreal seascape. And yet, there is hope—the menorah is provisionally pieced back together; green plants take root and grow in the disintegrating stone.
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