Description
“Phantom Lady” is a limited-edition, pencil-signed and numbered screen print created by Mel Ramos in 1989.
Annotation
“Phantom Lady” is a limited-edition, pencil-signed & numbered screenprint by Mel Ramos on wove paper. The artwork was published by Robert Bane Editions, Los Angeles, and printed by Accent Studio, Los Angeles. This impression has a nice surface and has been stored in an architectural flat-file drawer in a smoke-free adult environment. All of our prints are kept in tissue and/or plastic sleeves and mailed flat to ensure safe travels. Expect minor wear consistent with history and age. The artwork was acquired through Robert Bane Editions, in 1996.
About Mel Ramos
The popularity of his works is evident in the fact that since 1959 he has participated in more than 120 group shows. Mel Ramos received his first important recognition in the early 1960s. Ramos, along with Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, and James Rosenquist, produced artworks that celebrated aspects of popular culture as represented in mass media. His paintings were shown along with theirs in major exhibitions of Pop Art both in this country and in Europe and were reproduced, often with irony, in books, catalogs, and periodicals throughout the world.
In 1981 had a solo show at the Louis K. Meisel Gallery in New York City; in 1985 the Meisel Gallery mounted another, The Four Seasons, and he has been showing regularly with them since then: Beauty And The Beast in 1989, The Artist’s Studio in 1991, Mel Ramos – The Heroines of 1962-64, and in 1993 Mel Ramos: The Unfinished Painting Series. Ramos has also been featured at the Hokin/Kaufman Gallery, Chicago (1986); Mel Ramos – Early Paintings was presented by Galerie Tanja Grunert, Cologne, West Germany in 1986, and Studio Trisorio, Naples, Italy featured his works in 1987. Some critical observers of the “art scene” persist in classifying Mel Ramos as a Pop Artist. His identification with the Pop movement of the 1960s was much too narrow to account for the broader context of his paintings. His humor is not a satire of ridicule. His “parodies” are respectful, affectionate tributes, a celebration of images with personal meaning. A retrospective of over 50 years of his work opened at the Crocker Art Museum in his hometown Sacramento, Ca.
Museum Collections: (several)
- Whitney Museum, NYC
- MOMA, NYC
- Smithsonian Museum, Washington,
- MOMA, San Francisco