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MEL RAMOS - Works and History

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MEL RAMOS

Study for Still Life: Sketch #2 (1995)

pencil on paper
unique

21.4 x 16.9 inches)

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MEL RAMOS

Study for Fonda: Sketch #1 (Time) (1970)

pencil on paper
unique

66 x 51 cm

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MEL RAMOS

Peek a Boo Barbie (1995)

pencil on paper
unique

65.5 x 27 cm

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MEL RAMOS

Superman (W/Super Girl) (2018)

Pencil and colored pencil on paper
Unique

56.5 x 37.4 cm

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MEL RAMOS

Elephant Seal (2013)

Lithograph
signed & numbered

Edition 199

88 x 100 cm

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MEL RAMOS

The Rounder (1999)

Lithograph
signed & numbered

Edition 199

92 x 49 cm

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MEL RAMOS

Rear View (after the work Rear View Roxy, 1966) (2022)

Fine Art Giclée print on Hahnemühle paper
stamped signed and numbered by the Estate of Mel Ramos

Edition 300

25 x 20 cm

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MEL RAMOS

Phantom Lady (Black) (1990)

Screenprint in 32 colors, printed 1990 after the original 1963 drawing
Signed & numbered

37 1/2 × 30 inches

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MEL RAMOS

Miss America (2008)

Enamel on Steel
signed & numbered in marker

Edition 125

35.4 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch

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MEL RAMOS

Photoshop CS (2008)

Enamel on Steel
signed & numbered in marker

Edition 125

36 x 24 x 1.5 inch

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MEL RAMOS Tyra Tire, 2004

MEL RAMOS

Tyra Tire (2004)

Lithograph in 23 colors
signed & numbered

Edition 199

33.3 x 22 inches

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MEL RAMOS

Have-A-Havana #7 (2008)

Lithograph in 24 colors
signed & numbered

Edition 199

30 x 44 inch

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MEL RAMOS

Hav-a-Havanna #8 (2011)

Lithograph in 32 colors
signed & numbered

Edition 199

45 x 29 inch

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MEL RAMOS

Browned Bare (1970)

Lithograph in 5 colors
signed & numbered

Edition 125

29.9 x 28 inch

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MEL RAMOS

Caramia Caramello (2007)

Lithograph in 28 colors
signed & numbered

Edition 199

44.9 x 27.6 inch

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MEL RAMOS

Burning Flame - La Bomba (2012)

Lithograph
signed & numbered

Edition 200

23 x 31 inch

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Curriculum Vitae

1935
born in Sacramento, USA

1957
B.A. Sacramento State College, Sacramento, USA

1958
M.A. Sacramento State College, Sacramento, USA

1986
National Endowment for the Visual Artists Fellowship Grant 
 United States/France Exchange Fellowship

Lives and works in Oakland, USA and Horta de San Juan, Spain

Selected Exhibitions

2015
Mel Ramos: Superman im Supermarkt, Levy Galerie, Hamburg, Deutschland
POtPourri, Galerie Thomas Modern, München, Deutschland
Mel Ramos meets Mel Bochner, Galerie Hafenrichter, Nürnberg, Deutschland
Mel Ramos peintures et sculptures, Galerie Patrice Trigano, Paris, Frankreich

2014
Die Schöne und das Biest, Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig, Deutschland
Everybody needs a hero, Scott Richards Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA, USA

2013
Summer views, Galerie Hafenrichter, Nürnberg, Deutschland

Pinups & Portraits – IKON Ltd, Santa Monica, USA

2012
Mel Ramos: 50 Years of Superheroes, Nudes, and Other Pop Delights, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, USA (solo)

Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch, Deutschland

2011
Galerie Ernst Hilger Vienna, Austria
Mel Ramos – Works on paper, Galerie Rainer Klimczak, Viersen, Deutschland

2010
50 Jahre Pop Art, Villa Stuck, München, Deutschland (solo)

2009
Marcel Strouk, Galerie Rive Gauche, Paris, Frankreich (solo)

2008
True Romance, Museum Villa Stuck, München, Deutschland

Posing, Kunsthalle Dermstadt, Darmstadt, Deutschland

2007
Prime Time – Idols and Icons, Vonderbank Artgalleries, Berlin, Deutschland

Shining Spirit: Westheimer Family Collection, Oklahoma CIty Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, USA

2006
Life as a Legend – Marilyn Monroe, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, USA

2005
Photorealism, Then and Now, Elaine Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, USA

Girls on film, Zwirner & Wirth, New York, USA

2004
Summer Jam, Galerie Burkhard Eikelmann, Dusseldorf, Deutschland

2003
Galerie Terminus, München, Deutschland

Riva Yares Gallery, Phoenix, USA

Bemarducci-Meisel, New York, USA

2000

Fischerplatz Galerie, Ulm, Deutschland

Galerie Patrice Trigano, Paris, Frankreich

2001
Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, USA

Galeria Alvarez, Porto, Portugal
 Palazzo dei Sette, Comune di Orvieto, Italien

Galerie Hilger, Wien, Österreich

Galleria d’Arte Maggiore, Bologna, Italien

2000
Galerie Burkhard Eikelmann, Köln, Deutschland

Galerie Vonderbank, Frankfurt, Deutschland

Kunsthaus, Köln, Deutschland
 

Kunstforum Fränkisches Seenland, Gunzenhausen, Deutschland

1999
Galerie Burkhard Eikelmann, Essen ,Deutschland

Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Wilhelmshaven, Deutschland

Museum Moderner Kunst, Passau, Deutschland

Kunsthaus Hannover, Hanover, Deutschland

Louis Meisel Gallery, New York, USA

Galleria Civica di Modena, Modena, Italien

1998
Galerie Eikelmann & Auktionhaus Karbsten, Dusseldorf, Deutschland

Galeria Nova, Bad Homburg, Deutschland

1997
Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

Mel Ramos – Oleos, Acuareias, Dibujos,
Galeria Levy Madrid, Madrid, Spain

1996
Attention to Detail (Realism in All Forms), Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, USA

1991
Mel Ramos – The Heroine of 1962-64, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, USA

1987
The Artists of California: A Group Portrait in Mixed Media, The Oakland Museum, Oakland, USA

1986
Mel Ramos Early Paintings, Galerie Tanja Grunert Köln, Deutschland

1984
Automobile and Culture, The Museum of Cotemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA

1980
Mel Ramos: A Twenty Year Survey, The Rose Art Museum, Brandies University, Waltham, USA

1979
Selections from the Frederick Weisman Collection of California Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washinton, D.C.

1974
Pop Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA

David Stuart Gallery, New York, USA (solo)

1970
Pop Prints, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

1964
Bianchini Gallery, New York, USA