Samuel Bak

Study for a Cancelled Departure

   
Study for a Cancelled Departure
  • 2021
  • Oil on canvas
  • 14 × 18 inches(35 12 × 45 12 cm)

  • Signed and dated lower right: BAK 21

  • A massive grave for a ship?
    An impossible image.
    Yet trees emerge from the ship that is constructed of stone.
    It could never have floated.
    How did it end up in this open grave?
    The smokestacks also made of stone belch smoke.

    This departure was definitely canceled.
    Is it a memorial to the St. Louis, the ship denied entry into the US and Cuba only to have many of its passengers murdered when returned to War-torn Europe.

    The Ship of Questions.

    Bernard H. Pucker, BAK a Day, April 9, 2022

  • Themes:  Tree Boat Figure Smoke

Literature

FIGURING OUT . Paintings by Samuel Bak 2017-2022 Lawrence L. Langer, Andrew Meyers 2022 Boston, MA, p. 12, 98, ill.

An Unimaginable Partnerschip Lawrence L. Langer 2022 Boston, MA, p. 472, ill.

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