HEMINGWAY / Cuban Silkscreen Movie Poster / Havana CUBA Art / Spain Bullfighting

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HEMINGWAY / Cuban Silkscreen Movie Poster / Havana CUBA Art / Spain Bullfighting:
$89.00

To our collector, interior designer and 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 store (stores..com/CubanPosterGallery ) where new listings arebeing posted every week in both the sale and Buy It Now/Best Offer formats.

The Cuban Poster Gallery appreciates your business!

Our regular price for this poster is $249. Here we are offering HEMINGWAY, a striking Cuban silk-screenposter that was designed for an award-winning 1962 Cuban documentary about the life of Ernest Hemingwaywho lived in Cuba (as wellas the U.S.and bullfight-crazy Spain)and wrote some of his most famous works at his home outside Havana. As the poster tells us, this was a\"blanco y negro\" (black and white) film directed by FaustoCanel, who sought to put the writer\'s life into perspective after hisdeath in 1961.

A copy of this poster wasdisplayed by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at its 2011 exhibitionof Cuban movie poster in Beverly Hills.s Acopy of this silk-screen,whose artist is unknown,is also inthe permanent collection of the Academy\'s poster art museum.

This hard-to-find 20 by 30 inch poster (a standard size, so easy and inexpensive to frame) was silk-screened in the Cuban Film Institute workshop in Havana in the past decade, some years after the film and poster were first released in Cuba. A word about

Cuban silk-screens: Once the1st Editionsare sold, the Cuban Film Institute will sometimes(not always)make a relatively smallnumber of official2nd Editions inthe samesilk-screen workshop, usingthe same handmade, one-color-at-a-timetechniques.Beware of cheap, photocopied, mass-produced reproduction \"Cuban posters\" made in the U.S. that lack the authenticity of the true Cuban silk-screens.

(By the way, we have noticed that some sellers aredescribing 2nd Edition posters as “original” 1st Edition posters.We urge you to buy only from knowledgeable and reputable dealers such as theCuban Poster Gallery. All of the posters we offer are described accurately.)

Condition of this poster is good; as with many Cuban movie posters, please note that you might find some slight ripples or wrinkles in the white borders around the images and small imperfections elsewhere because these posters are, after all, handmade.Buy with 100 percent confidence; posters purchased from the Cuban Poster Gallery on can be returned for any reason within30 days. Your HEMINGWAYposter will be shipped FREE to U.S. addresses by USPS First Class Package Service (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 USPS International First Class Mail, 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 paying any Customs-related taxes assessed by their country.

TITLE:HEMINGWAY,designedfor a Cuban documentary about the American author\'s life.

DESIGNER: Unknown (even to the Cuban Film Institute!)

MEDIUM: Silk-screen / Serigraph

SIZE: 20 x 30 inches; 51 x 76 cm

ORIGIN: the ICAIC (Cuban Film Institute) silk-screen workshop in Havana, Cuba

A few words about collecting Cuba\'s silk-screen movie posters:

For more than 50 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. But don\'t take our word for it! 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 collectibility, Cuba\'s movie posters are produced in relatively smallnumbers. 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 collectibility, 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 and2nd Edition postersto our customers on 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 us, these are utterly worthless as collectibles.

To our 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\'sstore: