"You get more salami with Modigliani #16" (1978) by Mel Ramos

"You get more salami with Modigliani #16" (1978) by Mel Ramos. Watercolour and graphite on paper. Image: 30.7 x 45.7 cm. (12 1/8 x 18 in).;sheet: 43.5 x 59 cm. (17 1/8 x 23 1/4 in). Signed and dated ‘Mel Ramos 1978’ along the lower margin.

See previous Art Boobs posts on Mel Ramos. From an auction.

He has a new book coming out soon:

The title of this pocket-sized monograph says it all. Whether painting a gorgeous Monica Vitti-esque bombshell leaning on a Del-Monte catsup bottle in 1971, a Matisse-inspired redhead reclining on an abstracted chair or an Uma-Thurmanish blonde laying on a giant pack of 5 Flavor Life Savers, the rebel figurative painter Mel Ramos is widely viewed as one of the most significant representatives of the California Pop movement. Like his colleagues in the New York Pop art scene, he began his career as a commercial artist and was interested in the everyday myths of his time, from comic-strip figures to the synthetic dreams proposed by the advertising world. Since 1963, Ramos has fleshed out just about every popular erotic fantasy of women, from the cartoon superheroine to the dominatrix to the pin-up girl. He has also turned an ironic eye to the classical female nude, painting cyclical series of the love lives of the ancient gods and painterly paraphrases of classical masterpieces by Ingres, Manet, Modigliani and de Kooning. With an interview of the artist by Belinda Grace Gardner.

"Gnu" (1973) by Mel Ramos

"Gnu" (1973) by Mel Ramos. Oil on canvas. 40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm). From an auction. Previous posts on Mel Ramos.

"Bathroom II" (2005-2006) by Richard Hamilton

"Bathroom II" (2005-2006) by Richard Hamilton, oil on Fuji lightjet on canvas, 100 x 100 cm. Courtesy the artist.

Richard Hamilton (born February 24, 1922) is an English painter and collage artist. His 1956 collage titled "Just What Is It that Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?", produced for the "This is Tomorrow" exhibition of the Independent Group in London, is considered by some critics and historians to be the first work of Pop Art.

This work is part of a series shown now at the Venice Art Biennial.

"Untitled" (1970) by Tom Wesselman (1931-2004)

"Untitled" (1970) by Tom Wesselman (1931-2004), 13.2 by 20.3cm, pencil and watercolour on paper

From an upcoming Sotheby's Contemporary Art auction. Estimated at 10,000—15,000 GBP.

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"Camilla Queen of the Jungle Empire" (1963) by Mel Ramos

"Camilla Queen of the Jungle Empire" (1963) by Mel Ramos, Oil on canvas, 30 x 26 inches, Hall Collection

Image source and previous post on Mel Ramos.

"Monica nude with yellow curtain" (1991) by Tom Wesselmann

"Monica nude with yellow curtain" (1991) by Tom Wesselmann, 16 x 18 cm

This silk-screen print on paper (sérigraphie sur papier) by Tom Wesselmann (1931-2004) will be auctioned tomorrow at Sotheby's in Paris, France. It's estimated at 1,000—1,500 EUR.

His early work was heavily influenced by the abstract expressionist painters, especially Willem de Kooning. His art became more popular in the 1960s and had his first one-man exhibition in 1962 at the Tanager Gallery, New York. After that, his art made it to several other exhibitions such as the Young America exhibition in 1965, Whitney Museum, New York.

Beginning in the 1950s, he made collages from magazine clippings and found objects, often incorporating female nudes. Wesselmann was best known for his "Great American Nudes" series.

He died of complications following heart surgery, aged 73.

"Seven up Sally" (2006) by Mel Ramos

"Seven up Sally" (2006) by Mel Ramos, Oil on canvas, 102 x 76 cm

Mel Ramos exhibition at Galerie Ernst Hilger in Vienna, Austria opens 5 October 2006.

"Lindner Doll" (1965) by Jann Haworth

"Lindner Doll" (1965) by Jann Haworth, Mixed media, 91.50 cm h

During the 1960s, Jann Haworth (1942) experimented with a series of cloth work 'celebrity' dolls in which she captured the spirit of the 'swinging sixties' and Pop Art. Alongside Richard Hamilton, David Hockney and her husband Peter Blake, Haworth was a major figure in the first decade of British Pop Art, exploring the imagery of comics, pin-up magazines, consumer advertisements. Two of her cloth work sculptures of this period appear in the foreground of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover, a photo-collage which she co-designed with Peter Blake. She explained in an interview with David Lister:

Peter and I were there at the time, talking to Paul and John, and working out what the Pepper cover would be... The old lady and Shirley Temple figure in the foreground were mine, and the idea of going for 3-D figures in a setting was something I was doing at the time. The crowd concept was Peter's. (London, 2000)

The Lindner Doll, clad in her raucous, breast exposing corset, is a play upon the bizarre images of women found in the work of the American Pop Artist Richard Lindner. Jann Haworth continued to work in three dimensional needlework and appliqué throughout the following decade, when she worked with The Brotherhood of Ruralists. Haworth left the Brotherhood around 1980 and returned to the United States, where in Utah, she founded the Sundance Artshack Studio. (source)

It's for sale for £30,000 (56K USD).