Mel Ramos - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale New York Tuesday, May 10, 2016 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Christie's, Rome, December 18, 2002, lot 116
    Private Collection

  • Literature

    Thomas Levy, ed., Drawings by Mel Ramos, Kerber Verlag, Hamburg, 2011, p. 49 (illustrated)

  • Artist Biography

    Mel Ramos

    American • 1935

    Mel Ramos is an American Pop artist best known for his paintings of female nudes alongside brand logos. His depictions of women with everyday products celebrate aspects of popular culture represented in mass media and advertising. Like his contemporaries Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, Ramos was inspired by comic books and grew up drawing cartoons and characters from their pages. The artist's works, including paintings, prints and works on paper, feature in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, among others.

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160

Antelope

1970
pencil on paper
13 x 17 in. (33 x 43.2 cm)
Signed and dated "Mel Ramos 70" lower center.

Estimate
$12,000 - 18,000 

Sold for $16,250

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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale

New York Auction 10 May 2016