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Mel RamosLeta and the Hill Myna1969
1969
$275,000
£205,822.77
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"Leta and the Hill Myna" is a painting by American Pop artist Mel Ramos. The work is signed verso "Mel Ramos".
Mel Ramos is a California based Pop artist best known for his paintings of superheroes and female nudes, including Marilyn Monroe and Scarlet Johansson, with pop culture imagery. Many of his subjects emerge from Chiquita bananas, 100 Grand Bars, and M&M bags, or lounge around large Coca Cola bottles, or cigarette boxes.
Ramos emerged from the 1960’s Pop art movement through his appropriated imagery from mass media and pop culture – his paintings of women reference the sensuality of pin-ups and Playboy spreads, while commenting on clichés in advertising.
Ramos has participated in over 120 group shows in the US and Europe since 1959, with Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, and others. His artwork is featured in permanent collections internationally, including the Whitney Museum of American art and Neue Galerie Stadt Aachen, Germany. The Crocker Art Museum hosted a retrospective of over 50 years of his artwork in 2012.
Provenance:
JJ Brookings Gallery, California
Private Collection, California
Exhibition:
Mel Ramos: 50 Years of Superheros, Nudes, and Other Pop Delights: June – October 2012, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
Beauty and the Beast: October 2013 – December 2014, Museum Bildenden Kuenste, Leipzig, Germany
Literature:
Ramos, M., Shields, S. A., Keats, J., Daniels, D. L., & Crocker Art Museum. (2012). Mel Ramos: 50 years of superheroes, nudes, and other pop delights. San Francisco: Modernism Inc. p. 45-46
Ramos, M., In Levy, T., & Gardner, B. G. (2016). Mel Ramos: Catalogue raisonne of the paintings 1953-2015
Beauty and the Beast: October 2013 – December 2014, Museum Bildenden Kuenste, Leipzig, Germany ill. Back Cover
- Creator:Mel Ramos (1935, American)
- Creation Year:1969
- Dimensions:Height: 60 in (152.4 cm)Width: 52 in (132.08 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Palm Desert, CA
- Reference Number:Seller: 409981stDibs: LU9310473382
Mel Ramos
Mel Ramos’s provocative, humorous paintings mix idealized nude women with the imagery of popular culture—Coca Cola bottles, movie posters, and the like. A prolific artist from his emergence in the 1960s onward, Ramos has often based his nudes on the female celebrities of the day, from Marilyn Monroe to Scarlett Johansson. His style references the sensuality and glossy flatness of pin-ups and Playboy spreads and has drawn the ire of feminists and art critics alike, despite Ramos’s assertion that his works are “apolitical”. Though clearly aligned with Pop art in his appropriation of imagery from mass media and consumer products, Ramos calls his practice rooted in Surrealism and its emphasis on “absurd conjunctions”—in his case, a beautiful nude woman emerging from a Snickers wrapper or lounging seductively in a banana split.
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