Offset print in colors on coated paper
Germany, 1999
After Mel Ramos (born 1935) – US-American Pop art artist
Signed lower right in pencil ‘Mel Ramos’
Poster with letters for the exhibition in the Kunsthaus Hannover
Image dimensions: 49.7 x 41.3 cm
Very good condition
Advertising prints and exhibition posters are very sought-after works by Mel Ramos; the auction record for an offset print in colors by Ramos is set above €41,000

This poster that was printed in 1999 for an exhibition of the artist at Kunsthaus Hannover, reproduces the lithograph ‘Gee Gee’ by Mel Ramos. It was created in 1997 and shows – typical for the artist – a naked woman in front of the emblem of the American Company General Electric.



The offset print in colors is signed lower right in pencil ‘Mel Ramos’. The sheet is in very good condition apart from occasional faintly visible handling ceases. The image measures 49.7 x 41.3 cm, the sheet 84.5 x 59.5 cm.

Mel Ramos (b. 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. (fea)

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