The Girls of Mel Ramos

Elizabeth Claridge, Mel Ramos

Chicago

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Playboy Press

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1975

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First Edition.

30cm x 26cm. 158 pages, illustrations, many colour. Maroon cloth, illustrated jacket.

An authoritative compendium of the illustrations of American figurative painter Mel Ramos (1935-2018). Specialising in paintings of female nudes his work incorporates elements of realist and abstract art. Text by Elizabeth Claridge. An invitation to one of his final exhibitions, Sirens & Heroes, is laid in.

Near Fine in Very Good Jacket. Very minor wear to fore-edge of front free endpaper. 2 small closed tears to top edge of jacket. Laid in invitiation has some indent marks. Near Fine Condition.