Mel Ramos (1935-2018) Devil Doll, 1997 Lithograph in colors on wove paper 20-1/2 x 18-1/8 inches (52 x 46 cm) (image) A.P. 46/50 (aside from an edition of 200) Signed and editioned in pencil along lower edge Published by Galerie Ernst Hilger, Vienna Printed by Stamperia Carini, San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy In the oeuvre of Pop Art Founding Father Mel Ramos, perhaps no single work seems so concurrently of her time, ahead of her time, and retro as Devil Doll, Ramos' universally relatable character-study of eternally hip Americana by way of a WrestleMania-Lucha Libre Mona Lisa -- a transcendent journeywoman-with-moxy, and a canonical work from the earliest days of Pop Art, intersecting numerous contemporary and classic High ‘n Low touchstones within a cornerstone series of the Pop Art Founding Father's museum-storming canonization of Comic Book Heroines. The color-dense, high-impact lithograph features bold concentric circles, which at their outermost edge, posit, with a brazen fragility, a novel challenge of discernment evoking the color theory-flouting formalism of Kenneth Noland and the Pop pomp and grandiosity of Looney Tunes' "That's All Folks!" title cards. HID12401132022 © 2024 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved www.HA.com/TexasAuctioneerLicenseNotice