Mel Ramos - Editions & Works on Paper New York Wednesday, February 12, 2025 | Phillips

Editions & Works on Paper

New York Auction 12 February 2025

  • Literature

    Ruth Fine and Mary Lee Corlett, Graphicstudio: Contemporary Art from the Collaborative Workshop at the University of South Florida, 1991, cat. no. 167 and 168

  • 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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Lot offered with No Reserve

Mel Ramos

Llama; and Indian Rhinoceros

1970
Two lithographs in colors, on Arches paper, with full margins.
Llama I. 26 1/2 x 19 1/2 in. (67.3 x 49.5 cm)
Llama S. 30 x 22 3/8 in. (76.2 x 56.8 cm)
Indian Rhinoceros I. 19 1/8 x 27 3/8 in. (48.6 x 69.5 cm)
Indian Rhinoceros S. 22 1/4 x 30 in. (56.5 x 76.2 cm)
Both signed, dated and numbered 'USF IV' and 'USF VIII' in pencil respectively (publisher's proofs, the editions were 30 and 8 in Roman numerals), published by Graphicstudio, University of South Florida, Tampa (with their blindstamp), both unframed.

Estimate
$800 - 1,200 •

Sold for $1,397

Editions & Works on Paper

New York Auction 12 February 2025