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Mel Ramos (b. 1935), Poster, Strellson, New York, 2007/2009

Currency:EUR Category:Collectibles Start Price:1,000.00 EUR Estimated At:1,600.00 - 2,000.00 EUR
Mel Ramos (b. 1935), Poster, Strellson, New York, 2007/2009
Offset print in colors on paper
USA, New York, 2007/2009
Mel Ramos (born 1935) – US-American pop art artist
Signed in blue felt pen lower right ‘Mel Ramos’
Verso with text print
The poster shows a painting that Mel Ramos created for the fashion brand Strellson in 2007
Dimensions: 77.8 x 57 cm
Good condition
Advertising prints and exhibition posters are very sought-after works by Mel Ramos; the auction record for an offset print in color by Ramos is set above 41,000 euro

The poster shows a pin up girl of the US-American artist Mel Ramos that is installed as a large-format banner at a house wall in New York City. In 2007, the artist created two paintings for the Swiss fashion brand Strellson for one of their collections and one of them is the present motif. On the reverse of the poster are a text about Mel Ramos, impressions of the artist’s studio and a photograph of his painting ‘Zebra’, installed as a banner on a rooftop in New York City.



The poster is signed in blue felt pen lower right ‘Mel Ramos’. The poster is besides slight handling creases, folding lines and small brown staining next to the ‘Zebra’ in good condition. The sheet dimensions are 77.8 x 57 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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