SAMUEL BAK : RETURN TO VILNA (SIGNED) by Bak, Samuel - [2002] 2006

Boston: Pucker Art Publications, [2002] 2006. Later printing. Paperback. NEAR FINE. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Light bend to book, otherwise near fine. Faint 6" scuff mark to front cover can be seen when in the right light. Includes sixty-six beautiful, evocative, full-color works of art. White lettering to spine, baby-blue and black lettering to front of glossy, deep terra cotta colored illustrated cover. "To the Gate" illustration to front cover. "Landscape with Documents" to back cover. Very clean, bright and solidly bound. 44 pp with lists of Gallery Exhibitions, Selected Museum Exhibitions, Public Collections and Monographs/Books. Florida Holocaust Museum February 10, 2007 through May 13, 2007. After 57 years, Samuel Bak returns to the town of his birth, Vilna, Poland. "This new series of paintings was preceded by the publication of his autobiographical memoir, appropriately titled Painted in Words. "Memories of "what had happened" infiltrate the images of much of Bak's recent work. They are not renditions of how things appear, but tributes to disappearance, absence rather than presence," (p 2).