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Mel Bochner (AMERICAN, 1940) Blah, Blah, Blah Oil on black velvet 2009 Dimensions: 12 x 9 inches (30 1/2 x 22 3/4 cm) Signed and dated in black ink, verso Provenance: Private Collection, New York City Contact department for full condition report This 2009 oil painting on black velvet by the Conceptual artist Mel Bochner is an iconic work, containing the artist's most well known text "Blah, Blah, Blah." Bochner's paintings with text were recently the subject of a retrospective entitled "Mel Bochner: Strong Language" at the Jewish Museum in New York City. One of the founders of the Conceptual Art Movement, Mel Bochner has always been interested in systems involving language or numbers, and incorporates these into brightly colored paintings with provocative language taken from popular culture. Mel Bochner (AMERICAN, 1940) Bochner was born in 1940 in Pittsburgh and graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 1962. His first exhibition in 1966 at the School of Visual Arts, New York, is considered to be one of the first Conceptual Art exhibitions. In the 1970's Bochner shifted to painting and used unconventional materials. Since 1964 he has lived and worked in New York City. He has exhibited widely in the United States and Europe and his work is represented in the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris.