Mel Ramos - Contemporary Art Part II New York Friday, November 14, 2008 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels

  • Exhibited

    San Francisco, Modernism, Martini Culture, June 8 - August 19, 1995

  • Literature

    D. Kuspit and L. K. Meisel, Mel Ramos Pop Art Fantasies: The Complete Paintings, New York, 2004, p. 225 (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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Martini Miss: The Lost Painting of 1965 #1

1994
Watercolor on paper. 
30 x 22 3/4 in. (76.2 x 57.8 cm).
Signed and dated "Mel Ramos 94" lower right. 

Estimate
$70,000 - 90,000 

Contemporary Art Part II

14 Nov 2008, 10am & 2pm
New York