About the Artwork
Orbit
1983
Mel Bochner
born 1940
American
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Overall: 108 × 84 × 1 7/8 inches (274.3 × 213.4 × 4.8 cm)
Paintings
Contemporary Art after 1950
Founders Society Purchase, Maxwell and Marjorie Jospey Fund
1987.22
Courtesy of the Artist
Markings
Signed, verso: Mel Bochner
Inscribed, titled, dated on verso: Orbit [underlined] | 108" x 84" | Oil on sized canvas | 1983 | Mel Bochner
Provenance
The Lambert Collection. 1987-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Reconnecting: Recent Work by Jennifer Bartlett, Mel Bochner, Nancy Graves, Patrick Ireland and Lucio Pozzi. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1987, ill.
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Courtesy of the Artist
Mel Bochner, Orbit, 1983, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Maxwell and Marjorie Jospey Fund, 1987.22.
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