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Lot 201

Mel Ramos (American, 1935-2018)

Estimate: $700 - $900

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Mel Ramos (American, 1935-2018)
Mel Ramos (American, 1935-2018)

Raven Rita (S. 56), from Leta and the Swan Series, 1969

Photolithograph and color lithograph, signed and dated in pencil, numbered 3/100, published/printed by Collector's Press, San Francisco, with full margins, in good condition, framed

Signed: l/r

22 x 28in. (56 x 71cm/sheet)
25 1/4 x 31in. (64 x 78.5cm/frame)

Mr. Ramos had other areas of artistic interest — he did a number of paintings of superheroes, for instance — but it was his works with female nudes that drew the most attention, and ire. There was Miss Grapefruit Festival (1964), with a nude woman sitting in a sea of grapefruits, the word “Sunkist” behind her. There was Monterey Jackie (1965), with a nude woman atop a block of cheese. He painted naked women on candy boxes and inside glassware; one embraced a cigar, another a ketchup bottle.

From the estate of a Marin County collector

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