Provenance
Gallery Sho, Tokyo
Christie's, New York, Post-War and Contemporary Morning Session, November 13, 2013, lot 288
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
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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Mel Ramos

Miss Kiss #2

2012
oil on canvas
48 x 24 in. (121.9 x 61 cm)
Signed and dated "Mel Ramos 2012" on the reverse.

Estimate
$120,000 - 180,000

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