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Mel Bochner

SELECTED WORKS
Don’t Make Me Laugh
2023
Etching with aquatint

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 #36540)

Thank You
2023
Unique watercolor painting on UV screenprint on paper

67 3/4 x 51 7/8 inches (172.1 x 131.8 cm)
Signed and dated recto lower right in graphite
(Inventory #36375)

Don’t Make Me Laugh / 60″ / What’s The Big Idea?
2022
Monoprint in oil with collage, engraving and embossment on handmade paper

Image/paper size: 60 x 60 inches (152.4 x 152.4 cm)
Signed and dated lower right in graphite
(Inventory #34407)

Babble
2022
Monoprint in oil with collage, engraving and embossment on handmade paper

Image/paper size: 12 x 9 3/8 inches (30.5 x 23.8 cm)
Signed and dated lower right in graphite
(Inventory #34399)

Joys of Yiddish
2014
Screenprint on felt

Image/mount size:  62 3/4 x 52 3/4 inches  (159.4 x 134 cm)
Edition of 30
Signed on verso
(Inventory #34114)
Krakow Witkin 2014.02

Language Is Not Transparent
2017
Silkscreen and water-based inks in three parts

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

Power
2010
Two-color etching with aquatint on Somerset Velvet White paper

Edition of 20
Image/paper size: 31 x 23 7/8 inches (78.7 x 60.6 cm)
Signed and dated lower right and numbered lower center in graphite
(Inventory #33850)
Krakow Witkin 2010.04

Silence
2013
Nineteen-color water-based silkscreen with color shifting inks on Lanaquarelle paper

Edition of 20
Image/paper size: 60 x 45 inches (152.4 x 114.3 cm)
Signed, dated and numbered lower right in graphite
(Inventory #33778)
Krakow Witkin 2013.05

Blah, Blah, Blah (Inverse)
2022
Silkscreen on Lanaquarelle paper

Edition of 30
Image/paper size: 62 x 47 inches (157.5 x 119.4 cm)
Frame size: 65 1/8 x 49 3/4 inches (165.4 x 126.4 cm)
Signed, dated, and numbered lower right in graphite
(Inventory #33720)
Krakow Witkin 2022.02

Obliterate
2018
Silkscreen in thirteen colors on Lanaquarelle paper

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

Head Honcho
2020
Silkscreen on Lanaquarelle paper

Edition of 30
Image/paper size: 63 x 48 inches (160 x 121.9 cm)
Signed and dated lower right in graphite
(Inventory #33636)

I Forget
2014
Etching with aquatint on Somerset Velvet White paper

Edition of 20
Image/paper size: 10 1/2 x 20 inches (26.7 x 50.8 cm)
Signed, numbered, and dated lower right in graphite
(Inventory #33630)
Krakow Witkin 2014.07

Do I Have To Draw You a Picture?
2021
Monoprint in oil with collage, engraving and embossment on handmade paper

Image/paper size: 30 x 90 inches (76.2 x 228.6 cm)
Signed and dated lower right in graphite
(Inventory #33602)

If The Color Changes
2003
Monoprint in oil with engraving and embossment on handmade paper

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 #33479)

If The Color Changes
2003
Monoprint in oil with engraving and embossment on handmade paper

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 upper right in graphite
(Inventory #33475)

Liar
2008
Etching with aquatint in white ink on black Hahnemühle paper

Edition of 20
Image/paper size: 30 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches (77.5 x 57.2 cm)
Signed and dated lower right, numbered lower center in graphite
(Inventory #33183)
Krakow Witkin 2008.03

Everybody Is Full Of Shit
2018
Laser engraving and hand-applied silver nitrate on laminated glass

25 x 35 x 1 1/4 inches (63.5 x 88.9 x 3.8 cm)
Edition of 12
Signed and dated on label, on reverse
(Inventory #30357)

48 inches
2007
Monoprint with engraving and embossment on handmade paper in two parts

Image/paper size:  36 3/8 x 48 1/2 inches  (92.4 x 123.2 cm)
Signed recto in pencil
(Inventory #25933)

12 inches
2007
Unique monoprint with engraving and embossment on handmade paper in two parts

Image/paper size:  9 x 12 inches  (24.1 x 31.1 cm)
Frame size:  15 5/8 x 18 5/8 inches  (39.7 x 47.3 cm)
Signed
(Inventory #26360)

12″ Square
1997
Wood engraving on handmade paper, 4 sheets

Image/mirror size:  24 x 20 inches  (61 x 50.8 cm)
Image/Paper size: 16 x 16 inches overall  (40.6 x 40.6 cm overall)
Edition of 12
Signed on reverse
(Inventory #26398)
Krakow Witkin 1997.01

Genetic Sequence B
1996
Monoprint with engraving and embossment on handmade Twinrocker paper

Image/paper size:  36 x 72 inches (91.4 x 183 cm)
Signed and dated verso
(Inventory #14649)

Genetic Space, Black and White #2
1995
Engraving with embossment on handmade paper

Image/paper size: 36 x 36 inches (91.4 x 91.4 cm)
Edition 4 of 6
Signed, dated, and numbered verso
(Inventory #16876)

Untitled (Red, Yellow, Black)
1995
Engraving with embossment on 4 sheets of handmade Twinrocker paper

Image/paper: 20 x 20 inches overall  (50.8 x 50.8 cm)
Edition of 8
(Inventory #19199)
Krakow Witkin 1995.06

Untitled
1982
Oil paint on unique aquatint, drypoint, and softground etching

20 3/4 x 29 1/2 inches (52.7 x 74.9 cm)
Signed and dated recto in graphite
(Inventory #36101)

Third Quartet
1988
Black and white etching with aquatint on d'Arches Watercolor rough paper

Image/paper size: 19 3/8 x 14 5/8 inches (49.2 x 37.1 cm)
Overall size: 45 x 44 3/4 inches (114.3 x 113.7 cm
Edition of 15
Signed on reverse on one of the sheets, no further information can be given from Parasol
(Inventory #36089)

PRIMER (1969-1972) Twenty-One Demonstrations from a Theory of Sculpture
1995
Set of twenty-one silkscreens

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

Untitled
1981
Four-color silkscreen

Paper size: 12 3/4 x 13 1/4 inches (32.4 x 33.7 cm)
Image size: 8 3/4 x 10 5/8 inches (22.2 x 27 cm)
Edition of 35
Signed and dated lower right, numbered lower center in graphite
(Inventory #36098)

Additional Information

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

BFA in 1962 from Carnegie Institute of Technology

Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA), The Art Show 2022

November 3, 2022
- November 6, 2022

Mel Bochner

April 23, 2022
- June 1, 2022

Mel Bochner: If The Color Changes

September 18, 2021
- November 4, 2021

International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) Fair Fall 2021 Online Edition

October 15, 2021
- October 31, 2021

Now and Later

March 7, 2020
- April 4, 2020

Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA), The Art Show 2020

February 26, 2020
- March 1, 2020

Mel Bochner: Mirror Works

May 11, 2019
- June 15, 2019

International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) Fine Art Print Fair, New York 2018

October 24, 2018
- October 28, 2018

One Wall, One Work:
Mel Bochner

March 31, 2018
- May 5, 2018

Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA), The Art Show 2018

February 27, 2018
- March 4, 2018

International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) Art Fair, New York 2017

October 26, 2017
- October 29, 2017

Between Subjects

December 10, 2016
- January 21, 2017

Featuring works by Josef Albers, Mel Bochner, Jan Dibbets, Bronlyn Jones, Ellsworth Kelly, Sol LeWitt, Brice Marden, and Sylvia Plimack Mangold

Block Parts

June 18, 2016
- July 29, 2016

Featuring works by Josef Albers, Robert Barry, Michael Beatty, Mel Bochner, Ellsworth Kelly, Allan McCollum, Liliana Porter, Stephen Prina, Kate Shepherd, Richard Smith, and Ana Tiscornia

Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) Art Show 2016

March 2, 2016
- March 6, 2016

Equal Dimensions

December 12, 2015
- January 30, 2016

Featuring works by Josef Albers, Richard Artschwager, Robert Barry, Mel Bochner, Peter Downsbrough, Erwin Heerich, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Allan McCollum, Giulio Paolini, Liliana Porter, Stephen Prina, Kay Rosen, Robert Ryman, and Fred Sandback

Additive Logic

June 13, 2015
- July 24, 2015

Featuring works by Bernd & Hilla Becher, Mel Bochner, Dan Flavin, Sol LeWitt, Kay Rosen, Ed Ruscha, Richard Tuttle, and Franz Erhard Walther

International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) Art Fair, New York 2014

November 5, 2014
- November 9, 2014

Mel Bochner

September 6, 2014
- October 18, 2014

One Wall, One Work:
Mel Bochner

September 6, 2014
- October 18, 2014

Peoples Natures

January 26, 2013
- March 9, 2013

Featuring works by Mel Bochner, Julian Opie, Liliana Porter, and Robert Rauschenberg

Blues

December 1, 2012
- January 19, 2013

Featuring works by John Baldessari, Mel Bochner, Frank Egloff, Robert Mangold, Kay Rosen, Kate Shepherd, and Suara Welitoff

Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) Art Show 2012

March 7, 2012
- March 11, 2012

Face Time

October 22, 2011
- December 3, 2011

Featuring works by, John Baldessari , Mel Bochner, and Chuck Close



No Way

January 6, 2011
- February 1, 2011

Featuring works by Bruce Nauman, Kay Rosen, and Rachel Perry Welty

Depth and Construction

June 22, 2010
- August 3, 2010

Featuring works by Mel Bochner, Scott Hadfield, Ursula von Rydingsvard, and Maggi Brown

Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) Art Show 2010

March 3, 2010
- March 7, 2010

The Sum of Its Parts

September 2, 2008
- October 7, 2008

Featuring works by Mel Bochner, Daniel Buren, Tara Donovan, Tony Feher, Jenny Holzer, Allan McCollum, Roy McMackin, Julian Opie, Maurizio Pellegrin, Liliana Porter, and Suara Welitoff

Art Chicago 2008 Art Fair

April 24, 2008
- April 28, 2008

Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) Art Show 2008

January 19, 2008
- February 27, 2008

Group Show II

January 27, 2007
- March 14, 2007

Featuring works by Eleanor Antin, Richard Artschwager, Mel Bochner, Sophie Calle, Peter Downsbrough, Vik Muniz, Ed Ruscha, Julian Opie, and Lawrence Weiner

Group Show

June 18, 2005
- July 28, 2005

Featuring works by Josef Albers, Uta Barth, Mel Bochner, Daniel Buren, Chuck Close, Mike Glier, Jenny Holzer, Alex Katz, Maryellen Latas, Sol LeWitt, Julian Opie, Jeff Perrott, Jonathan Seliger, Kelly Sherman, Bill Thompson, Peter Wegner, and Laura Wulf

The Armory Show 2004

March 11, 2004
- March 14, 2004

Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) Art Fair

February 19, 2004
- February 23, 2004

Mel Bochner Genetic Space(s): Paintings, Drawings, and Prints, 1992-1996

October 25, 2003
- December 9, 2003

International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) Art Fair

November 6, 2003
- November 9, 2003

Print Publisher’s Spotlight: Two Palms Press

April 27, 2002
- June 5, 2002

Featuring works by Pedro Barbeito, Mel Bochner, Cecily Brown, Carroll Dunham, and Terry Winters