Contemporary Day Auction

Contemporary Day Auction

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Property from a Prestigious American Collection

Mel Ramos

Gorilla #1

Session begins in

May 16, 06:00 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 USD

Bid

90,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Prestigious American Collection

Mel Ramos

1935 - 2018


Gorilla #1

oil on canvas

60 by 52 in.

152.4 by 132.1 cm.

Executed in 1967.

David Stuart Galleries, Los Angeles

French and Company, New York

Private Collection, Kansas City (acquired from the above in 1969)

Private Collection, Boston

Acquired from the above in December 2007 by the present owner

Robin Skelton, "Mel Ramos," Art International, Volume XIII/3, 20 March 1969, illustrated in color (on the cover)

Elizabeth Claridge, The Girls of Mel Ramos, New York 1975, p. 123, illustrated in color

Thomas Levy, Mel Ramos: Heroines, Goddesses, Beauty Queens, Hamburg 2002, p. 223, illustrated in color

Donald Kuspit, Mel Ramos, Pop Art Fantasies, New York 2004, p. 140, illustrated in color

Thomas Levy, Ed., Mel Ramos: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings 1953-2015, Bielefeld 2016, p. 16, illustrated and no. 67-4, p. 200, illustrated in color