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Mel Bochner

Scissure

1977-1993

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Mel Bochner

Scissure

1977-1993

Physical Qualities Wall painting, 108 × 132 in. (274.3 × 335.3 cm.)
Credit Line Bequest of Suzanne F. Cohen, Baltimore
Object Number 2019.104
With accompanying documentation
BMA by bequest, 2019; Suzanne F. Cohen, by artist's commission, executed January 1994;

Artist

Mel Bochner

1939–2024

born Pittsburgh, PA 1940; died 2025
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