Auction Details
Online Auction Launches:
May 22 @ 4pm PST
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Warehouse416 416 26th Street, Oakland
Saturday May 28 from 1-4pm.
Online Auction Closes:
June 5 @ 8pm PST
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Auction finishedGiclee reproduction on paper 11" x 8" This piece is part of Sharon's "I Have a Dream" series, based on the famous speech given by Martin Luther King in 1963. -
Auction finishedDigital pigment print on paper 40" x 40" Signed and Numbered 1/10 The source image for this work was a photograph of a graffitied street poster, taken on one of numerous trips to Paris to exhibit fashion textile designs at Première Vision. The photo was then transformed into dots, resulting in an interplay between abstraction and readability, influenced in part by the distance at which the work is viewed. And of course, it is also much about color! -
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Auction finished19 color lithograph Artwork: 23" x 23" Framed: 36" x 36" Signed and Numbered Artist’s Proof 49/50 From the Private Collection of Mel and Leta Ramos -
Auction finishedAcrylic on canvas 16" x 20" x 1" From her 2020 show ALL I NEED, this piece is a portrait of the artist’s childhood friend from Oakland. It represents the want to slow down and enjoy the little things.
About the Auction
All proceeds from this auction will fund arts education grants for programs reaching students in under-resourced Oakland public schools.
The Pop Art Continuum auction has been built around two limited-edition prints by Mel Ramos from his private collection— generously donated by the Mel and Leta Ramos Family Foundation.
Mel Ramos is one of the founders and luminaries of the American Pop Art movement. At the first U.S. Pop Art exhibition in 1963, Pop Art, USA, Mel Ramos, Andy Warhol, and Roy Lichtenstein cemented the American movement.
Radiating out from that first “Pow!” moment to today, Pop Art Continuum features exhilarating works from renowned Pop, Graphic, Graffiti, and Street Artists.
The Mel and Leta Ramos Family Foundation is a non-profit family foundation focused on supporting arts education programs such as scholarships, teaching artist opportunities, visual arts curriculum, youth projects, and exhibitions by and for youth. Founded by family members of the late Mel and Leta Ramos, the Foundation’s work is in keeping with the lifelong passion of Mel and Leta Ramos to support the visual arts and visual artists through art-making, teaching, and creating learning opportunities for youth and future arts leaders.
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The first 5 people to donate or bid/buy $200 or more will receive a free copy of Mel Ramos: The Definitive Catalogue Raisonné of Original Prints with our profound thanks!
Richly illustrated in color, Mel Ramos: The Definitive Catalogue Raisonné of Original Prints includes two essays by art historians and curators Claire Breukel and Jeanette Zwingenberger, who analyze Ramos’ lifelong artistic engagement with the female nude.
From a very early stage in his artistic career, Mel Ramos (1935–2018) explored printed editions as part of his oeuvre. The earliest of these were still in an abstract expressionist idiom, but the artist began engaging with the medium in earnest in the mid-1960s, as the pop style for which he is famed took shape. Pop art’s inspiration in consumer goods and mass media naturally led to experiments with commercial printing methods such as silk-screening, and Ramos was one of its foremost practitioners.
This catalog is an invaluable resource for researchers, collectors and aficionados alike.
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Auction finishedAcrylic on canvas 16" x 20" x 1" From her 2020 show ALL I NEED, this piece is a portrait of the artist’s childhood friend from Oakland. It represents the want to slow down and enjoy the little things.
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Auction finished35 Color Lithograph 39.5" x 28" Signed and Numbered Artist's Proof 11/50 From the Private Collection of Mel and Leta Ramos -
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Auction finished2014 digital print Unframed: 13" x 9 3/8" Framed: 21" x 15" Signed edition 2/200 From the Mel and Leta Ramos Family’s personal collection -
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Auction finished19 color lithograph Artwork: 23" x 23" Framed: 36" x 36" Signed and Numbered Artist’s Proof 49/50 From the Private Collection of Mel and Leta Ramos
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Auction finishedPhotographic Print on Archival paper 16" x 20" Signed. This is the VERY FIRST print of this painting, and as of now it is the ONLY print. The painting, which has been sold, was created for DC: Women of Action. This print was made specifically for this auction and it is unknown when, or if, the artist will make additional prints. Regardless, this will always be the very first. -
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Auction finishedDigital pigment print on paper 20" x 33.12" or 33.12" x 20" - May be hung horizontally or vertically Signed and Numbered 1/10 This work is from a series of dot designs, originally created as part of a public art commission for the street-level architectural glass for a building in downtown Oakland. An original repeat pattern design was used as source material for this abstracted work. The result is an interplay of color, pattern, and repetition. -
Auction finishedDigital pigment print on paper 40" x 40" Signed and Numbered 1/10 The source image for this work was a photograph of a graffitied street poster, taken on one of numerous trips to Paris to exhibit fashion textile designs at Première Vision. The photo was then transformed into dots, resulting in an interplay between abstraction and readability, influenced in part by the distance at which the work is viewed. And of course, it is also much about color!
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Auction finishedGiclee 11" x 8" The famous "I Have a Dream" speech given by Martin Luther King in 1963 is the inspiration for this painting. -
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Auction finished4 color lino print on paper 6" x 8.5" Signed and Numbered 6/20 -
Auction finishedAcrylic on masonite board 12.5" by 10" One of a series of paintings created as an homage to Navar's mentor, friend, and professor, the late artist Mel Ramos. -
Auction finishedColored Lithograph Unframed: 20 1/2" x 16" Framed: 26" x 20" Edition of 300 Signed and dated 1972 From Mel and Leta Ramos Family’s private collection -
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Auction finishedGiclee reproduction on paper 11" x 8" This piece is part of Sharon's "I Have a Dream" series, based on the famous speech given by Martin Luther King in 1963.
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Auction finished4 color lino print on paper 6.5" x 6.5" Signed and numbered 5/16 -
Auction finishedAcrylic on canvas 24" x 24" From Marisa Rheem's solo show "Momentary Captivation," at the International Art Museum of America in San Francisco. -
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Auction finishedFine art archival print: Printed on 308 gsm Hahnemühle Photo Rag Unframed: 24" x 24" Framed: 28" x 28" Signed and numbered 15/100 Bringing Oakland & San Francisco together in support of the Golden State Warriors -
Auction finishedDigital pigment print on paper 12" x 34.5" Signed and Numbered 1/10 This piece is built from the piecing and recombining of two original photographic images taken in West Oakland. The result is a composition that is visually fragmented and yet retains some degree of continuity, some ability to read the original images.The ideas therein are simply that: studies of relationship; the coincidence of objects, color, and texture, both accidental and intended. -
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Auction finishedAcrylic on canvas 36" x 36" From Marisa Rheem's solo show "Momentary Captivation," at the International Art Museum of America
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Auction finished35 Color Lithograph 39.5" x 28" Signed and Numbered Artist's Proof 11/50 From the Private Collection of Mel and Leta Ramos
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Auction finished19 color lithograph Artwork: 23" x 23" Framed: 36" x 36" Signed and Numbered Artist’s Proof 49/50 From the Private Collection of Mel and Leta Ramos
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Auction finishedAcrylic on canvas 36" x 36" From Marisa Rheem's solo show "Momentary Captivation," at the International Art Museum of America
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Auction finishedPhotographic Print on Archival paper 16" x 20" Signed. This is the VERY FIRST print of this painting, and as of now it is the ONLY print. The painting, which has been sold, was created for DC: Women of Action. This print was made specifically for this auction and it is unknown when, or if, the artist will make additional prints. Regardless, this will always be the very first.
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Auction finished2014 digital print Unframed: 13" x 9 3/8" Framed: 21" x 15" Signed edition 2/200 From the Mel and Leta Ramos Family’s personal collection
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Auction finishedFine art archival print: Printed on 308 gsm Hahnemühle Photo Rag Unframed: 24" x 24" Framed: 28" x 28" Signed and numbered 15/100 Bringing Oakland & San Francisco together in support of the Golden State Warriors
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Auction finishedGiclee 11" x 8" The famous "I Have a Dream" speech given by Martin Luther King in 1963 is the inspiration for this painting.
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Auction finishedGiclee reproduction on paper 11" x 8" This piece is part of Sharon's "I Have a Dream" series, based on the famous speech given by Martin Luther King in 1963.
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Auction finished4 color lino print on paper 6" x 8.5" Signed and Numbered 6/20