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Mel Bochner

Optic Chiasma

1991

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Mel Bochner

Optic Chiasma

1991

Physical Qualities Oil on canvas, 98 x 98 in. (249 x 249 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Suzanne F. Cohen, Baltimore, in Honor of the Museum's 90th Anniversary
Object Number 2004.58
Four-part array
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2004; The Baltimore Museum of Art on extended loan, January 2000; from Suzanne F. Cohen, Baltimore
The Baltimore Museum of Art, BMA Today, July - Augst 2004, p.10, ill.

Inscribed: Panel #3 of 4 is signed and dated. See file for inscriptions.

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Mel Bochner

born Pittsburgh, PA 1940; died 2025
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