MERMAID / Cuban Screenprint Poster for KENNEDY CENTER Cuba Music Dance Festival

Description: To our collector, interior designer and eBay friends worldwide:In addition to this special poster, 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 GRAPHIC IS $489 The Cuban Poster Gallery is thrilled to offer a Cuban screen-printed gem, this hand-signed original limited-edition poster created for ARTES DE CUBA: FROM THE ISLAND TO THE WORLD, a Cuban cultural festival that debuted in May 2018 at the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. We were dazzled the first time we saw this graphic at the Kennedy Center and have included 2 photos of the poster from the 2-week festival, which celebrated Cuban graphic artists, painters, sculptors, dancers, musicians and other icons of Cuban culture. This lovely poster was designed and signed by one of the hottest Cuban graphic artists, Raul Valdes, who is widely known as RAUPA. The poster shows a mermaid stepping into her theatrical costume (while dipping her toes into the water), thrilled to be a performer at ARTES DE CUBA: FROM THE ISLAND TO THE WORLD. The 12 posters displayed at the Kennedy Center were originally printed via offset. After the exhibition, organizers of the exhibition selected four of the 12 posters to screen-print -- in a special limited edition -- in Havana. The poster we are offering in this listing was chosen to be screen-printed. Only 50 copies of this poster were made, ensuring it will always be rare. The poster was hand-signed and -numbered by the artist. In addition to the Kennedy Center, RAUPA's poster has been displayed at exhibitions in Havana, including one in July 2018 at the Embassy of Spain. (We invite you to visit our eBay Store to see the other 3 screen-prints from the ARTES DE CUBA exhibition.) We have posted two photos that show RAUPA's extraordinary poster at the Kennedy Center exhibition. This ARTES DE CUBA: FROM THE ISLAND TO THE WORLD poster also was selected in 2020 as an entrant in the prestigious International Poster Biennal in Mexico City. Overall condition of this 27 by 19 inch screen-print is good. As with most handmade Cuban graphics, some small imperfections can be expected. But this poster is in great shape! Buy with 100 percent confidence; posters purchased from the Cuban Poster Gallery on eBay can be returned for any reason within 30 days. About shipping: For buyers with an address in the United States, your purchase will be shipped FREE by USPS Ground Advantage or UPS with delivery confirmation. For international buyers (outside of the United States), eBay will calculate the cost of shipping and any required Customs duties and taxes. TITLE: ARTES DE CUBA: FROM THE ISLAND TO THE WORLD DESIGNER: Raul ("Raupa") Valdes (b. 1980) SIGNED: Yes, by the artist's hand MEDIUM: Screen-print / Serigraph YEAR: 2018 SIZE: approximately 27 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches; 50 x 70 cm ORIGIN: Havana, Cuba A few words about collecting the Cuban silk-screen movie posters that we also offer in our eBay Store: 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, 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/cubanpostergallery

Price: 489 USD

Location: Washington, District Of Columbia

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