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Mel Bochner

Are You Out of Your Fucking Mind?; Do I Have To Draw You a Picture?; Everybody Is Full of Shit; It Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This; I’ve Had It Up to Here; Know What I Mean?; Talk Is Cheap

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October 18, 10:59 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 USD

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Mel Bochner

b.1940

Are You Out of Your Fucking Mind?; Do I Have To Draw You a Picture?; Everybody Is Full of Shit; It Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This; I’ve Had It Up to Here; Know What I Mean?; Talk Is Cheap

Seven etchings with aquatint printed in blue, 2012-2013, each signed in pencil, dated 2012 or 2013 and numbered 18/20 (total editions include five artist's proofs), on Somerset Velvet White paper, published by Two Palms Press, unframed (7 prints)

sheets: 565 by 768 mm 22¼ by 30¼ in

“The question is often asked, ‘Must we mean what we say?’ But the real question is, ‘Must we say what we mean?’ For me humor is not a ‘laughing matter.’ I’m more interested in irony. Irony is subversive. It camouflages a ‘meaning inside the meaning.’” – Mel Bochner (Mel Bochner quoted in Kevin Salatino and Emily Ziemba, “'A Way to See What I’m Thinking': A Conversation with Mel Bochner", The Art Institute of Chicago, 2022)