Bidspirit auction | Mel Ramos (1935 - 2018)

Mel Ramos (1935 - 2018) - Unfinished Painting #2, 1991. Signed and dated Mel Ramos 91 on the reverse Oil on canvas cm 177,5x127 Provenance: Mel Ramos Studio, Oakland, California, as per label on the reverse; Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, as per label on the reverse; LEVY Galerie, Hamburg; Private Collection, Germany; here acquired from the above by the present owner Exhibitions: Solo exhibition, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, November 2004; Mel Ramos, Retrospektive 1961–2007, LEVY Galerie, Hamburg, from November 1st to 30th 2007 Literature: Mel Ramos. Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings 1953-2015, Edit by Thomas Levy, Bielefeld/Berlin, 2016, no. 91–2, p.223;  Mel Ramos Pop Art Fantasies: The Complete Paintings, Donald Kuspit, Louis K. Meisel, New York, 2004, p.176  Blindarte kindly thanks Rochelle Leininger, artist's daughter, for confirming by email the authenticity of the work and for the help in compiling this catalogue's data