Sale
16143 - Contemporary Art, 13 May 2008
New York
Lot No: 31
(n/a) Mel Ramos (American, born 1935)
The Green Lantern, 1962
signed, titled and dated 'Mel Ramos The Green Lantern 1962' on the reverse
oil on canvas
49 x 43in (124 x 109cm)
Sold for $600,000 inclusive of Buyer's Premium
Footnote:
Provenance:
Modernism, San Francisco, California (acquired directly from the artist)
Private Collection, California (acquired from the above in 1988)
Exhibited:
Oakland, The Oakland Museum, Mel Ramos: Paintings 1959-1977, September 20 - November 13 1977 (catalog by Harvey L. Jones)
San Francisco, Modernism, Mel Ramos: Paintings 1962-1986, November 4 - December 13, 1986
Literature:
Donald Burton Kuspit, Louis K. Meisel, Mel Ramos Pop Art Fantasies: The Complete Paintings, Watson-Guptill, New York, 2004 (color illust. p. 36)
Mel Ramos: Pop Art Images, Benedikt Taschen, Cologne, 1994 (color illust. p. 18)
Note:
"Independently in California, 3,000 miles from where Pop Art was taking shape in the hands of such artists as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, Ramos came upon the comic strip character as subject matter. [The Super Hero] was eminently and inherently Pop." --Donald Kuspit. p. 34 [see Literature]
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