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THBMel Ramos (1935-2018) American, Oil on Canvas
About Seller
522 South Pineapple Avenue
Sarasota, FL 34236
United States
Sarasota Estate Auction specializes in a wide variety of furniture, antiques, fine art, lighting, sculptures, and collectibles. Andrew Ford, owner and operator of the company, has a passion for finding the best pieces of art and antiques and sharing those finds with the Gulf Coast of Florida.
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LiveJun 8, 2024
Over 900 lots will be offered in day 1 of our 2 day weekend. There are multiple lots of modern and contemporary art from mixed medias and lithographs to prints and abstracts. We have art glass sculptures, Louis Vuitton luggage, Steuben, Kosta Boda glass, a Laverne table, and more! Sarasota Estate Auction sarasotaestateauction@gmail.com
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Mel Ramos (1935-2018) American, Oil on Canvas. Signed and titled on back: "Self Portrait." Depicts the artist, unfinished.
Provenance: Estate of Mel and Leta Ramos.
Depth: 1 1/2 in.
Overall size: 27 X 31 1/2 in.
Sight size: 19 1/4 X 23 1/2 in.
#1512 .
Melvin John Ramos was born in July 1935 in Sacramento, California. He enrolled at Sacramento State College in 1954, where he studied under Wayne Thiebaud. He received a bachelor’s degree in 1957 and a master’s degree the next year. At first experimenting with abstract expressionism, he eventually shifted into painting superheroes like Batman and Superman. In 1955 he married Leta Alice Helmers, and early in his career she was often his model. Along with Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein his work was exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1963. By the late 1960s he was at the heart of the Pop Art movement, drawing praise and ire alike for his graphically rendered, semi-pornographic paintings of nude women, often in compromising situations and on unorthodox objects like candy boxes and glassware. From 1966 until his retirement in 1997, Mr. Ramos taught at California State University, Hayward. His work is in permanent collections in the New York Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He died of heart failure in October 2018 in Oakland, California.
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