Mel Bochner Prints and Multiples
American, b. 1940
Mel Bochner experimented with a range of styles before finding his eventual success as a pioneer in Conceptual art. An audacious 1966 show at School of Visual Arts (SVA) in Manhattan that he presented, “Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to Be Viewed as Art,” remains a seminal touchstone for Conceptualism.
Bochner was born to a Pittsburgh sign painter in 1940. While attending the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon) in the late 1950s, he studied color theory and modernist movements as well as classical drawing, a balance that was formative in his career. After graduation, he moved to San Francisco, creating paintings influenced by Clyfford Still and Jean Dubuffet.
It wasn’t until Bochner “found his way out of the labyrinth of late Abstract Expressionism,” as he put it to The Brooklyn Rail, that he began to create his most meaningful work. Following a stint auditing philosophy classes after a friend introduced him to the work of Heidegger, Bochner relocated to New York, finding work as a guard at the Jewish Museum. In Manhattan, he ran in the same circles as Dan Flavin, Brice Marden and Donald Judd.
“One of the conversations going on in New York in the late ’60s was about the relationship of the object to the art experience,” Bochner said. “...Younger artists like myself were talking about what it would mean to eliminate the object altogether.” This idea would become the foundation of the Conceptual movement, in which Bochner was instrumental. The artist is probably best known for his text-focused paintings, including a series that plays with the phrase “Blah Blah Blah.” He produces work that regards art as an experience, rather than an object, centering on the process of creation and viewership as opposed to the finished product.
Bochner’s “Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to Be Viewed as Art” featured drawings, notes and outlines from the likes of Milton Glaser, Carl Andre, Sol LeWitt and others as well as pages from Scientific American. Bochner, then an art history professor at SVA, photocopied the assemblage of works, added them to binders and positioned them on pedestals for the exhibition because the show’s organizers lacked the funds to frame the pieces.
Bochner’s works can be found in the collections of many major museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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Artist: Mel Bochner
Large Mel Bochner BLAH BLAH BLAH (INVERSE) Silkscreen, 62"H
By Mel Bochner
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Mel Bochner (American, 1940-2025)
Marking(s); notes: signed; ed. 12/30; 2022
Materials: silkscreen on Lanaquarelle paper with diamond dust
Dimensions (...
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2010s Pop Art Mel Bochner Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Kick Against the Pricks (Blah, Blah, Blah) Pop Silkscreen Hand Signed/N, Framed
By Mel Bochner
Located in New York, NY
MEL BOCHNER
Kick Against the Pricks (Blah..Blah...Blah...), 2018
Two color silkscreen on boutique silk fair paper with blue-colored back, 350 gsm paper
Signed, dated, and numbered 29/30 on the front by Mel Bochner
Frame included: elegantly framed in a museum quality white wood frame with UV plexiglass is included
Measurements:
Framed:
12.5 inches x 30 inches x .5 inch
Artwork:
10.5 inches x 28 inches
Published by Two Palms Press
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Crazy over the top (With background Noise)
By Mel Bochner
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Bochner, Mel
Title: Crazy over the top (With background Noise)
Date: 2018
Medium: Screenprint in colors with black gloss ink on wove paper
Unframed Dimensions: 21.7" x 23.6"
Framed Dimensions: 24" x 26"
Signature: Signed by Artist
Edition: 17/30
Published by Two Palms Press, Inc., New York,
Printed by Luther Davis, BRT Printshop, Brooklyn, New York
Reference: Krakow Witkin...
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2010s Contemporary Mel Bochner Prints and Multiples
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Screen
Mel Bochner "Blah, Blah, Blah" oil monoprint with collage, engraving, embossment
By Mel Bochner
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Brightly colored "Blah, Blah, Blah" monoprint in oil with collage, engraving and embossment on handmade paper by artist Mel Bochner from Two Palms Publishing. Signed and dated Bochne...
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2010s Contemporary Mel Bochner Prints and Multiples
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Oil, Handmade Paper, Engraving
"Kvetch" monoprint in oil with collage, engraving and embossment by Mel Bochner
By Mel Bochner
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Kvetch" monoprint in oil with collage, engraving and embossment on handmade paper by artist Mel Bochner from Two Palms Publishing. Signed and dated Bochner 2021 lower right recto. I...
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2010s Contemporary Mel Bochner Prints and Multiples
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Oil, Handmade Paper, Engraving
"Gobbledygook" monoprint with collage, engraving and embossment by Mel Bochner
By Mel Bochner
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Gobbledygook" monoprint with collage, engraving and embossment on hand-dyed Twinrocker handmade paper from Two Palms Publishing. Signed and dated Bochner 2017 lower right recto. Ima...
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Four Color Quartets (Fourth Quartet)
By Mel Bochner
Located in New York, NY
Suite $20,000. Individual Quartets $6,000.
First Quartet 35 in. x 35 in.
Second Quartet 35 in. x 45 in.
Third Quartet 45 in. x 35 in.
Fourth Quartet 45 in. x 45 in.
Signed and ...
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1990s Contemporary Mel Bochner Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Mel Bochner UNTITLED Screenprint
By Mel Bochner
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Mel Bochner (American, 1940-2025)
Marking(s); notes: signed; ed. 15/100; 1990
Materials: screenprint on heavy wove paper
Dimensions (H, W, D): 48"h, 48...
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20th Century Abstract Mel Bochner Prints and Multiples
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Four Color Quartets, Abstract Lithograph by Mel Bochner
By Mel Bochner
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Mel Bochner, American (1940 - )
Title: Four Color Quartets
Year: 1990
Medium: Four Lithographs, signed and numbered verso
Edition: 8/35
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1990s Conceptual Mel Bochner Prints and Multiples
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Four Color Quartets (Second Quartet)
By Mel Bochner
Located in New York, NY
Suite $20,000. Individual Quartets $6,000.
First Quartet 35 in. x 35 in.
Second Quartet 35 in. x 45 in.
Third Quartet 45 in. x 35 in.
Fourth Quartet 45 in. x 45 in
Signed and d...
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1990s Contemporary Mel Bochner Prints and Multiples
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Second Quartet: Black and White, State II
By Mel Bochner
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated on verso.
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 p...
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Late 20th Century Conceptual Mel Bochner Prints and Multiples
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Four Color Quartets (Third Quartet)
By Mel Bochner
Located in New York, NY
Suite $20,000. Individual Quartets $6,000.
Signed and dated on verso.
First Quartet 35 in. x 35 in.
Second Quartet 35 in. x 45 in.
Third Quartet 45 in. x 35 in.
Fourth Quartet ...
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1990s Contemporary Mel Bochner Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Four Color Quartets (First Quartet)
By Mel Bochner
Located in New York, NY
Suite $20,000. Individual Quartets $6,000.
First Quartet 35 in. x 35 in.
Second Quartet 35 in. x 45 in.
Third Quartet 45 in. x 35 in.
Fourth Quartet 45 in. x 45 in.
Signed and ...
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1990s Contemporary Mel Bochner Prints and Multiples
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Head Honcho, 2012
By Mel Bochner
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Mel Bochner's Head Honcho, 2012, is a unique monoprint that exemplifies his exploration of language's power and ambiguity. This work is part of his ongoing series inspired by thesaur...
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2010s Conceptual Mel Bochner Prints and Multiples
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The background consists of bright colors. The letters laid upon the top are built in 3-dimension of oil paint in solid, strong colors. The embossed letters are executed in a capitalized and uniform type face with rounded corners and crisp edges. The pigment of the oil paint glows in hues of pink, orange, purple and yellow. The repeated word occupies the expanse of the image as if composed within a linear grid. Throughout this grid, Bochner plays with the levels of contrast, heightening the intensity in certain sections, and reducing the degree in other areas.
The colorful monoprint is not only fun to look at, but carries and air of gaiety around the subject of fine art – something that is so often considered all too serious. Bochner uses powerful words to make the viewer think about how they “ascribe character and feelings to things, even the inanimate, that have none.” He seeks to incite a reaction in the viewer, and certainly the use of such color and such bold language will no doubt do the trick.
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Oh Well
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Mel Bochner Oh Well, 2022 is a bold and visually appealing work of art that captures immediately captures your attention. This striking piece conjures up a soothing sensation yet the...
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A bold artwork from renowned American Conceptual artist, Mel Bochner Head Honcho, 2013 features a stunning palette of bright colors. Horizontal stripes of different colored hand-dyed Twinrocker paper are collaged together to create a multicolored rectangular background. In a portrait orientation, twelve lines of text fill the composition from left to right, and top to bottom reading: “HEAD HONCHO TOP DOG, KING OF THE HILL, MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE. LAY DOWN THE LAW, CALL THE SHOTS, CRACK THE WHIP, RULE WITH AN IRON HAND, GOTCHA BY THE BALLS,” with each word alternating in color from the preceding. This array of synonyms is poignant on its own, while the graphic capital letters and striking colors add another layer of intensity. To arrive at this text, Bochner would choose words from a thesaurus, and arrange the words to fit a designated format, in this case, rectangle measuring roughly 30 inches tall and 20 inches wide. Bochner elaborates on his process, comparing it to “a sort of degegeneration of language, as it moves from the more polite and formal to the more vulgar and bodily” (Bochner, A Conversation between Mel Bochner and Barry Schwabsky, Mel Bochner Monoprints...
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