Untitled

Untitled

Mel Bochner

1971

graphite

From the collection of Museum of Modern Art

About this work

This sketch shows a simple house drawn in black lines on graph paper. Inside the house, there’s another smaller box, like a room within a room. On the left side, there’s a vertical strip of paper with big orange numbers—0 through 9—written in uneven, hand-drawn letters. The paper has some notes scribbled in pencil, too. The notes say this was a plan for an exhibit at MoMA in 1971. The artist used masking tape to stick the paper in place, and the lines are precise but a little messy, like a quick draft. The numbers on the side look like they might be part of the drawing or instructions. If this sketch interests you, check out The Museum of Modern Art to see how it fits into their collection.

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