THE CITY Original Cuba Silkscreen Poster for Havana Movie About Cuban Emigration

Description: To our collector, interior designer and eBay friends worldwide: The Cuban Poster Gallery in Washington D.C. is offering a huge selection of handmade Cuban silk-screen movie posters, many of which work beautifully well together. To view all of the posters, please visit our eBay Store ( stores.ebay.com/CubanPosterGallery ) where new listings are being posted every week in both the Auction and Buy It Now/Best Offer formats. The Cuban Poster Gallery appreciates your business! Our regular price for this poster is $229. Striking ORIGINAL handmade silk-screen poster designed for "LA CIUDAD" (THE CITY), a quintessential 2015 Cuban movie that focuses on three everyday realities of Cuban life -- the complicated issues of emigration, family separation and family reunions. This gorgeous, hard-to-find silk-screen -- showing the dome of Havana's historic Capitol Building (which was under renovation when the movie was made in 2015) -- was designed by Giselle Monzón, one of Cuba's most talented young artists. Monzon's work has been displayed in museums, galleries and festivals worldwide, including a 2018 exhibition at the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. The poster was screen-printed in the ICAIC (Cuban Film Institute) silk-screen workshop in Havana. Like most Cuban movie posters, this one measures 20 by 30 inches--a standard size, so easy and inexpensive to frame. Condition of this poster is good-fair with some imperfections, including wrinkles on the white border and a small tear, also on the border. Buy with 100 percent confidence; posters purchased from the Cuban Poster Gallery on eBay can be returned for any reason within 30 days. Your original "LA CIUDAD" (THE CITY) poster will be shipped FREE to U.S. addresses by USPS Ground Advantage or UPS (with delivery confirmation) in a sturdy tube. Overnight USPS Express Mail delivery to U.S. addresses is available for a flat $25 for an unlimited number of posters purchased on the same day. International shipping is offered for a flat $20 to all other countries via eBay International Standard Delivery, but FREE if you buy 3 or more posters on the same day. Customers outside the United States: please contact us for a quote if you require faster shipping. Customers outside the United States are responsible for any Customs-related taxes assessed by your country. TITLE: "LA CIUDAD" (THE CITY), designed for a 2015 Cuban film. DESIGNER: Giselle Monzón (b. 1979) MEDIUM: Silkscreen / Serigraph YEAR: 2015 SIZE: 20 x 30 inches; 51 x 76 cm ORIGIN: the ICAIC (Cuban Film Institute) silkscreen workshop in Havana, Cuba A few words about collecting Cuba's silk-screen movie posters: For more than 60 years, the Cuban Film Institute has been designing silk-screened posters for most every movie shown on the island, whether the films originated in Cuba, the United States, Brazil, Japan or Italy. In the midst of the Cold War 1960s and 1970s, many of the subtitled foreign films shown in Cuba came from the island nation's communist allies in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Vietnam and even North Korea. Unlike in the United States, where movie posters are often dominated by images of Hollywood stars, the Cubans assign a graphic artist to design an original piece of artwork for each film. These posters are widely recognized in graphic design circles as stylish works of art, handmade one color at a time and often under difficult circumstances (at various times, paint and even paper have been in short supply on the island.) Cuba's silk-screen movie posters are nothing less than museum pieces. Examples of Cuban poster art can be found in the permanent collections of museums across the globe from the Victoria & Albert in London to the Museum of Modern Art in New York, as well as in prestigious institutions such as the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles. Adding to their collectability, Cuba's movie posters are produced in relatively small numbers. Typically, a few hundred copies are made for each film, although the runs have been as low as 50. Responding to demand from collectors, the Cuban Film Institute has re-screened some of its more popular posters. That's why some posters created in the 1960s and 1970s began reappearing on the Caribbean island in the 1990s and 2000s. Further adding to their collectability, many of Cuba's vintage posters are imperiled. Although a few hundred copies may have been screened originally, relatively few have survived, due to the island's wet and humid climate, insect infestation, inadequate storage facilities in Havana and improper handling in Cuba and elsewhere. To us, these survivors are rare beauties, even those with obvious flaws. We are proud to have rescued hundreds of posters from almost certain extinction by storing them in an air conditioned, acid-free environment. We at the Cuban Poster Gallery offer both 1st and 2nd Edition posters to our customers on eBay and in our Washington D.C. gallery. We consider both to be collectible, and (in response to a question we often get) all of these posters were legally imported because the U.S. government exempts artwork from its economic embargo against Cuba. While the pricier originals are favored by some collectors, the re-screens are also collectible because they were made in the same Havana workshop as the originals. Note that we never sell unauthorized reproductions that have been cranked out in print shops in the U.S. and Europe. To our eBay customers, we pledge to accurately describe the posters we list and price them fairly based on condition and scarcity. Have a question? Please don't hesitate to contact us. To view more distinctive Cuban graphics, we invite you to visit the Cuban Poster Gallery's eBay Store: http://stores.ebay.com/

Price: 229 USD

Location: Washington, District Of Columbia

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