3 lithographs in color on strong wove paper
USA, 2002
Mel Ramos (born 1935) – US-American Pop Art artist
Each signed lower right in pencil ‘Mel Ramos’
Each numbered lower left in pencil ‘110/199’
Embossed stamp lower right ‘C’
Catalog raisonné: Schepers 2002, no. 120
Dimensions: each 61.1 x 40.2 cm (image), 80 x 58.3 cm (sheet)
Very good condition
Provenance: Austrian private collection
Mel Ramos is one of the most prolific and still living representatives of pop art; the auction record for a print by Mel Ramos is set at 49,000 Euros

These three lithographs in color with the title ‘Peek-a-boo Marylin #1, #2, #3’ were created by the US-American artist Mel Ramos in the year 2002. 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 motifs in his art and shows female ‘super heroes’ in pin-up-poses. Here it is Marylin Monroe, who is looking thrice through a keyhole undraped and in a whimsical way. In the first lithograph in front of a pink background, in the second in front of a yellow background and in the third in front of a violet background.



The three lithographs in color are signed lower right ‘Mel Ramos’ and numbered lower left ‘110/199’ in pencil. The embossed stamp is in the lower right ‘C’ of the sheets. The prints are in very good condition with minor traces of wear. The depictions measure each 61.1 x 40.2 cm and the dimensions of the sheets are 80 x 58.3 cm.



Mel Ramos (born 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.

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