Memorial Site (In Memoriam) (Proposition for a Yellow Monument)
1977
Oil on paper
50 × 65 cm(19,7 × 25,6 inches)
Signed and dated lower left: BAK 1977
I do not paint ghettos and concentration camps. I transpose all this into symbols. With these symbols I want to erect an endless number of tombstones. Some of my paintings ask the question: 'What kind of a monument can you actually build to what happened'.
Samuel Bak, What does it mean to be an Israeli Artist, compiled by Ruth Debel, ARTnews, 1978
Fleming Museum of Art / University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
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