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Edition of 20
Overall size: 63 x 141 inches overall (160 x 358.1 cm overall)
Image/paper size: 63 x 47 inches each (160 x 119.4 cm each)
Signed, numbered and dated on reverse on third sheet
(Inventory #34025)
Krakow Witkin 2017.01
Edition of 12
Image/mirror size: 25 x 35 x 1 1/4 inches (63.5 x 88.9 x 3.2 cm)
Frame size: 30 1/2 x 40 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches (77.5 x 102.9 x 8.9 cm)
Signed and dated on label, on reverse
(Inventory #30671)
Image/plate size: 22 x 30 3/4 inches (55.9 x 78.1 cm)
Paper size: 29 3/4 x 38 7/8 inches (75.6 x 98.7 cm)
Frame size: 32 3/4 x 42 inches (83.2 x 106.7 cm)
Edition of 35
Signed, dated and numbered lower right in graphite
(Inventory #37828)
Image size: 22 3/4 x 29 3/4 inches (57.8 x 75.6 cm)
Paper size: 26 1/8 x 34 7/8 inches (66.4 x 88.6 cm)
Edition of 35, 10 AP
Signed and dated lower right, numbered lower center and titled lower left
(Inventory #38275)
Plate size (each of two): 14 x 10 7/8 inches (35.6 x 27.6 cm)
Paper size: 27 x 37 5/8 inches (68.6 x 95.6 cm)
Edition of 25, 10 AP
Signed and dated lower right, numbered lower center and titled lower left
(Inventory #38321)
Image/plate size (each): 10 11/16 x 13 7/8 inches (27.1 x 35.2 cm)
Five plus Five’s paper size: 18 3/8 x 21 inches (46.7 x 53.3 cm)
Three plus Four and Four plus Three paper size (each): 17 3/16 × 20 inches (43.8 × 50.8 cm)
Frame size (each): 20 1/8 x 22 7/8 inches (51.1 x 58.1 cm)
Edition of 25
Signed and dated lower right, numbered lower center below image in graphite
(Inventory #37445)
Paper size: 41 7/8 x 50 7/8 inches (106.4 x 129.2 cm)
Frame size: 39 5/8 x 48 3/4 inches (100.6 x 123.8 cm)
Edition of 24
Signed and dated lower right, numbered lower left
(Inventory #38063)
Image size: 45 1/2 x 41 5/8 inches (115.6 x 105.7 cm)
Paper size: 47 5/8 x 47 13/16 inches (121 x 121.4 cm)
Edition of 100, 15 AP, 4 PP
Signed, numbered and dated lower left
(Inventory #37503)
22 1/4 x 29 7/8 inches (56.5 x 75.9 cm)
Signed, titled, dated and inscribed to lower left ‘Axiom of Precedence: First Case Mel Bochner, 1972, NYC’.
(Inventory #38032)
Image size: 9 x 10 5/8 inches (23 x 27cm)
Paper size: 12 5/8 x 13 3/16 inches (32 x 33.5 cm)
Edition of 35, 7 AP
Signed and dated lower right, numbered lower center
(Inventory #37492)
Image/paper size: 27 1/2 x 27 3/4 inches (69.9 x 70.5 cm)
Edition of 30, 10 AP
Signed, dated and numbered lower right in graphite
Two-color hard and soft-ground etching with aquatint on die-cut Somerset English Mouldmade paper
(Inventory #37999)
Image/plate size: 12 x 18 inches (30.5 x 45.7 cm)
Paper size: 18 x 22 inches (45.7 x 55.9 cm)
Edition of 75, 15 AP
Signed, dated, and numbered lower right in graphite
(Inventory #37530)
Image paper size: 9 7/8 x 6 15/16 inches each (25.1 x 17.6 cm each)
Edition of 50
Signed, numbered and dated lower right on colophon
(Inventory #27480)
Krakow Witkin 1995.07
Image/paper size: 2 1/4 x 3 inches (5.7 x 7.6 cm)
Frame size: 11 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches (29.2 x 36.8 cm)
Initialed and dated lower left in graphite
(Inventory #33476)
Image/paper size: 36 x 63 1/8 inches (91.4 x 160.3 cm)
Frame size: 40 5/8 x 67 3/4 inches (103.2 x 172.1 cm)
Signed and dated upper right corner
(Inventory #34405)
Edition of 30
Image/paper size: 50 x 40 inches (127 x 101.6 cm)
Signed, dated, and numbered lower right in graphite
(Inventory #33702)
Krakow Witkin 2018.03
10 x 14 inches (25.4 x 35.6 cm)
Signed and dated lower right recto
(Inventory #34636)
Edition of 30
Image/paper size: 63 x 48 inches (160 x 121.9 cm)
Signed and dated lower right in graphite
(Inventory #33636)
Krakow Witkin 2020.03
59 3/4 x 47 inches (151.8 x 119.4 cm)
Signed and dated recto in graphite
(Inventory #36347)
Paper size: 68 x 52 inches (172.7 x 132.1 cm)
Frame size: 72 1/2 x 56 1/4 inches (184.2 x 142.9 cm)
Signed and dated recto lower right in graphite
(Inventory #36376)
22 x 30 inches (55.9 x 76.2 cm)
Edition of 20, 5 AP, 5 PP
Signed and dated recto lower right in graphite
(Inventory #36535)
19 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches (50.2 x 34.9 cm)
Signed and dated verso on stretcher in black ink
(Inventory #37098)
30 x 18 1/2 inches (76.2 x 47 cm)
Signed and dated verso on stretcher in black ink
(Inventory #37099)
Mel Bochner is recognized as one of the leading figures in the development of Conceptual art in New York in the 1960s and 1970s. Emerging at a time when painting was increasingly discussed as outmoded, Bochner became part of a new generation of artists which also included Eva Hesse, Donald Judd, and Robert Smithson – artists who, like Bochner, were looking at ways of breaking with Abstract Expressionism and traditional compositional devices. His pioneering introduction of the use of language in the visual, led Harvard University art historian Benjamin Buchloh to describe his 1966 Working Drawings as probably the first truly conceptual exhibition.’
Bochner came of age during the second half of the 1960s, a moment of radical change both in society at large as well as in art. While painting slowly lost its preeminent position in modern art, language moved from talking about art to becoming part of art itself. Bochner has consistently probed the conventions of both painting and of language, the way we construct and understand them, and the way they relate to one another to make us more attentive to the unspoken codes that underpin our engagement with the world.
– Mel Bochner: If The Color Changes
Mel Bochner studied at Carnegie Institute of Technology where he received his B.F.A. in 1962. Since 1964 he has lived and worked in New York City. He has exhibited widely in the United States and Europe and his work is represented in the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris.
In 2005 he received an honorary doctor of fine arts degree from Carnegie Mellon University. Mel Bochner has also taught at the School of Visual Arts in New York. He was appointed to the Yale faculty in 1979 as senior critic in painting/printmaking and in 2001 was appointed professor (adjunct).
Born in Pittsburgh (USA) in 1940. Died February 12, 2025, New York.
BFA in 1962 from Carnegie Institute of Technology
