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Mel Ramos (b. 1935), Lithograph in Colors, ’Zebra’, 1981

Currency:EUR Category:Collectibles Start Price:800.00 EUR Estimated At:1,280.00 - 1,600.00 EUR
Mel Ramos (b. 1935), Lithograph in Colors, ’Zebra’, 1981
Lithograph in colors on wove paper
USA, New York, 1981
Mel Ramos (born 1935) – US-American pop art artist
Signed in pencil lower right ‘Mel Ramos’
Numbered in pencil lower left ‘70/250’
Edition Jackie Fine Arts
Printed by Atelier Dumas, New York (blindstamp)
Catalog raisonné: Shepers 86
Image size: 52.8 x 44.5 cm
Mel Ramos is one of the most prolific and still living representatives of Pop Art; the auction record for a lithograph in colors by Mel Ramos is set at 10,000 euro

The lithograph in colors ‘Zebra’ was created by the US-American pop art artist Mel Ramos in 1981. Depicted is a central theme of the oeuvre of the artist. He picks up elements of American advertisement, which are trying to sell products with depictions of provocative female sexuality. Mel Ramos uses this motif in his art and shows female ‘super heroes’ in pin-up-poses. Here it is a blonde beauty, riding on a zebra. A nice print, numbered 70, from the limited Edition Jackie Fine Arts of 250 prints in total, printed by Atelier Dumas, New York (blindstamp).



The lithograph in colors is signed in pencil lower right ‘Mel Ramos’ and numbered in pencil lower left ‘70/250’. The print displays scattered handling creases and a small nudge at the lower margin. In the right margin are tiny stains. The image size is 52.8 x 44.5 cm and the dimensions of the sheet are 64 x 52 cm.



Mel Ramos (b. 1935)

Mel Ramos was born as Melvin John Ramos in 1935 in Sacramento, California. He studied art at the Sacramento Junior College and at the Sacramento State College. One of his teachers was Wayne Thiebaud, which is why he was influenced by the so-called Bay Area Figurative School. The art movement set itself apart from the in the US dominant Abstract Expressionism of the fifties. In 1961, Ramos began depicting comic figures. And in 1963, he started showing what would become his central subject motive: female super heroes, pin-up-girls and advertisement illustrations. His first single exhibition took place in 1966 at Galerie Ricke in Kassel. From 1966 until 1997 he was a professor for painting at the California State University in Hayward. Works of his are in the possession of the most important American museums, like the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Washington, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Harvard University Art Museums. (tm)




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