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Mel Bochner

Superimposed ‘G-L’ Squares

1965

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Mel Bochner

Superimposed ‘G-L’ Squares

1965

Physical Qualities Pen and black ink and colored pencil on graph paper from a sketchbook, Sheet: 279 x 215 mm. (11 x 8 7/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Barry Le Va, New York
Object Number 1981.186
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1981; Barry LeVa, NY
Jan Howard, BMA, "Drawing Now: Mel Bochner," 1 August - 1 October, 1989.

Yale University Art Gallery, "Mel Bochner: Thought Made Visible, 1966-1973," October 12 - December 21, 1995.

Craig F. Starr Gallery, "Mel Bochner: Drawings 1966-1968", April 3-May 22, 2015, cat. 19, ill.
Dick Field, "Mel Bochner: Thought Made Visible, 1966-1973" (New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1995) p. 22 and cat. no. 8, repr.

Inscribed: Recto: at lower right, in black ink: "MB 66" Verso: none

Markings: None

Artist

Mel Bochner

1939–2024

born Pittsburgh, PA 1940; died 2025
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