Mel Ramos
Selected Works
Mel Ramos
Chiquita Banana, 2017
Bronze patiné
Hauteur 177 cm
(+ socle 90 x 65 x 65 cm)
Signé et numéroté
6 exemplaires + 2 EA
Mel Ramos
Toblerone Tess, 2013
Résine polychrome
47 x 105 x 20 cm
Signée et numérotée
8 exemplaires + 4 EA
Mel Ramos
Martini Miss, 2008
Résine polychrome
72 x 50 x 36 cm
Signée et numérotée
8 exemplaires + 4 EA
Mel Ramos
Five Flavor Frieda, 2010
Résine polychrome
50 x 96 x 22 cm
Signée et numérotée
8 exemplaires + 4 EA
Mel Ramos
Barbiburger, 2010
Résine polychrome
62 x 42 x 54 cm
Signée et numérotée
8 exemplaires + 4 EA
Mel Ramos
Golden Chiquita, 2012
Bronze plaqué or et argent
86 x 38 x 46 cm
Signée et numérotée
8 exemplaires + 4 EA
Mel Ramos
Hav-a-Havana, 2006
Résine polychrome
84 x 200 x 72 cm
Signée et numérotée
6 exemplaires + 2 EA
Mel Ramos
Heidi Heinz, 2009
Résine polychrome
85 x 38 x 27 cm
Signée et numérotée
8 exemplaires + 4 EA
Mel Ramos
Gitane, 2012
Résine polychrome
85 x 48 x 30 cm (3 parties)
Signée et numérotée
8 exemplaires + 4 EA
Mel Ramos
La Pause qui rafraîchit, 2008
Résine polychrome
110 x 110 x 35 cm
Signature et numérotée (édition de 6 + 2 EA)
Édition de 6 + 2 EA
Mel Ramos
Emin Emma, 2013
Résine polychrome
93 x 48 x 27 cm
Signée et numérotée
8 exemplaires + 4 EA
Mel Ramos
Chiquita Banana, 2017
Bronze patiné
Hauteur 177 cm
(+ socle 90 x 65 x 65 cm)
Signé et numéroté
6 exemplaires + 2 EA
Mel Ramos
Rhinocéros, 2017
Résine polychrome
100 x 73 x 37 cm
Signée et numérotée
8 exemplaires + 4 EA
Some of the works depicted are no longer available.
Biography
Mel Ramos is one of the main representatives of Pop Art. The artist draws inspiration from American comics and then approaches the theme of the Pin-Up, whose figures stand out against backgrounds represented by brand logos. Female characters are at the heart of Mel Ramos' work, his nudes are a tribute to feminine sensuality.
His first exhibition in 1957 featured his early work in figurative abstractions at the Crocker Art Museum in a group show titled Seven Painters Under Thirty. As one of the first artists to paint images from comic books, he exhibited at LACMA in 1963 with other emerging Pop artists of the time, Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol – ranking him among the founders of “Pop Art” in America.
As artists of that time increasingly questioned the rise of consumer culture, they also incorporated the solid colors and graphic forms of commercial art into their approaches to painting.
His most notable Pop Art invocations brought comic book superheroes into new contexts of power and play – combined with his signature nudes into a 2012 retrospective, returning to the site of his first exhibition at the Crocker Art Museum: Mel Ramos: 50 Years of Superheroes, Nudes and Other Pop Delights.
Over a sixty-year career, Mel Ramos exhibited in more than 120 group shows and solo exhibitions worldwide, represented by galleries in California, New York, Spain, Austria and Germany, marking him as a foremost international artist of the 20th and early 21st centuries.
Public Collections
Albertina, Vienne, Autriche, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Allemagne, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, Sintra Museo de Arte Moderna, Sintra, Portugal, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY