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    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 Comfort Cream, from 11 Pop Artists, Volume III

1965
Screenprint in colors, on wove paper, the full sheet.
S. 40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm)
Signed, dated and numbered 64/200 in pencil (there were also 50 artist's proofs in Roman numerals), published by Original Editions, New York, the colors attenuated, occasional soft handling creases (mainly visible in raking light), occasional soft scuffing in the silver (mainly visible in raking light), occasional soft rubbing in the red ink (mainly visible in raking light), minor bumps at the lower sheet corners, stray red ink on the reverse, otherwise in good condition, framed.

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$2,000 - 3,000 •

Sold for $2,000

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