Mel Ramos Monterey Jackie 2010 Hand-signed by the artist Offset Print 20Hx15cm Lit. - Galerie Ernst Hilger (Hrsg.): Mel Ramos - The definitive catalogue raisonné of original prints, Wien 2019, WVZ-Nr. GL 1-10 Condition: Very good condition Melvin John Ramos (July 24, 1935 – October 14, 2018) was an American figurative painter, specializing most often in paintings of female nudes, whose work incorporates elements of realist and abstract art. Born in Sacramento, California, to a first generation Portuguese-Azorean immigrant family, he gained his popularity as part of the pop art movement of the 1960s. His pieces are well-known for exploring the ways in which modern culture has cast the female body as interchangeable with beauty and consumerism. He has also superimposed his trademark females on famous nudes from art history and classical mythology. He was also a university art professor. Ramos received his first important recognition in the early 1960s; since 1959 he has participated in more than 120 group shows. Along with Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, he was one of the first artists to do paintings of images from comic books, and works of the three were exhibited together at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1963. Along with Claes Oldenburg, James Rosenquist, Tom Wesselmann and Wayne Thiebaud, Ramos produced art works that celebrated aspects of popular culture as represented in mass media. His paintings have been shown in major exhibitions of pop art in the U.S. and in Europe, and reproduced in books, catalogs, and periodicals throughout the world. Ramos has exhibited internationally and been featured in numerous museums, including the Whitney, Guggenheim and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.