Contemporary Day Auction
Contemporary Day Auction
Property from a Prestigious American Collection
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
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