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Mel Ramos

Martini Miss: The lost painting of 1965 #1

Lot Closed

March 4, 03:21 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Mel Ramos

1935 - 2018


Martini Miss: The lost painting of 1965 #1

signed and dated 93 (on the backing board)

oil on canvas

63⅞ by 48 in.

161.3 by 119.4 cm.

Executed in 1993.

Modernism Inc., San Francisco

Private Collection, San Francisco (acquired from the above in 1993)

Modernism Inc., San Francisco (acquired from the above)

Acquired from the above in 2001 by the present owner

San Francisco, Modernism Inc., Mel Ramos: The Lost Paintings of 1965; Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, January - March 1996 

San Francisco, Modernism Inc., Martini Culture, June - August 1995

Barnaby Conrad III, The Martini: An Illustrated History of an American Classic, San Francisco 1995, p. 110, illustrated in color

Thomas Levy, ed., Mel Ramos: Heroines, Goddesses, Beauty Queens, Germany 2002, p. 229, illustrated in color

Jonathon Keats, Modernism: Twenty-Five Years 1979-2004, San Francisco 2004, p. 393, illustrated in color

Donald Kuspit & Louis K. Meisel, Mel Ramos: Pop Art Fantasies. The Complete Paintings, New York 2004, cover and p. 203, illustrated in color

Thomas Levy, ed., Mel Ramos: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings 1953-215, Bielefeld 2016, cat. no. 93-4, p. 225, illustrated in color