Mel Bochner

American | 1940 - 2025

Mel Bochner was an American Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1940. Numerous key galleries and museums such as The Art Institute of Chicago have featured Mel Bochner's work in the past.Mel Bochner's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 30 USD to 216,675 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 216,675 USD for Chuckle, sold at Korea Premier Auction in 2021. In the past 12 months, his prints & graphic art have averaged 13,772 USD.Mel Bochner has been featured in articles for Art Review , ArtDaily and ArtDependence Magazine. The most recent article is Mel Bochner (1940–2025) written for ARTFORUM in February 2025. The artist died in 2025.

Featured for Sale

Blah Blah Blah ,2014

By Mel Bochner

Sotheby's New York

FUSE ,1983

By Mel Bochner

SBI Art Auction

Mendacious ,2012

By Mel Bochner

Phillips New York

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At Auction

Notable Lots

Diptych: Blah, Blah, Blah ,2012

By Mel Bochner

+10%

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Counting Exercise: Circles - Mel Bochner

Counting Exercise: Circles ,1972

By Mel Bochner

+471%

above mid-estimate

Blah, Blah, Blah ,2015

By Mel Bochner

+13%

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Upcoming Lots

FUSE ,1983

By Mel Bochner

SBI Art Auction

Mendacious ,2012

By Mel Bochner

Phillips New York

Blah Blah Blah ,2014

By Mel Bochner

Sotheby's New York

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Recent Auction Results

Oh Well ,2022

By Mel Bochner

Korea Premier Auction

Obvious ,2021

By Mel Bochner

-34%

below mid-estimate

Seoul Auction

Primer (1969-1972) Twenty-One Demonstrations from a Theory of Sculpture (K. 1995.07 - Mel Bochner

Primer (1969-1972) Twenty-One Demonstrations from a Theory of Sculpture (K. 1995.07 ,1995

By Mel Bochner

+18%

above mid-estimate

Phillips New York

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Past Exhibitions

Mel Bochner

Krakow Witkin Gallery

Newbury Street | Boston | Massachusetts | USA

Jan 11,2025 - Feb 15,2025

Art Matters

Gallery Neptune & Brown

Washington D.C. | District Of Columbia | USA

Dec 07,2024 - Jan 17,2025

Mel Bochner: 48" Standards

Peter Freeman, Inc.

Soho | New York | USA

Nov 19,2024 - Jan 11,2025

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Articles

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MutualArt 20/02/2025

Everything you need to know about the most important headlines from the world of art in the last seven days

Mel Bochner (1940–2025)

ARTFORUM 18/02/2025

Pathbreaking Conceptual artist Mel Bochner, whose painted, free-floating mathematical equations and contextless phrases reshaped the canon of contemporary art, died on February 12 at the age of eighty-four.

Mel Bochner, Pioneer Conceptualist, 1940-2025

Art Review 17/02/2025

Mel Bochner, one of the pioneers of North American conceptual art, has died.

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Coverage

“ ..Installed throughout the museum in often-unexpected locations the site-specific series accosted visitors with idiomatic, sometimes caustic, expressions from Bochner’s personal phrase dictionary, including... ”
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Simon Lee Gallery, London

“ ..Bochner’s father was a sign-painter by trade and so from an early age the artist developed an interest in the function of painting and its potential as a method of linguistic communication... ”
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Simon Lee Gallery, London

“ ..Bochner's use of the Thesaurus was pursued with increasing interest following the release of its latest edition, in 2001... ”
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The Jewish Museum

“ ..While known for her support of the prime artistic protagonists of pop art, minimalism, arte povera, post-minimalism and conceptual art, Sonnabend’s engagement continued up to her death in 2007... ”
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Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art

“ ..Meaning is both enhanced and obscured by Bochner’s technique, which invites the viewer to re-consider the ways in which we interpret language and image... ”
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Simon Lee Gallery, London