ANDY WARHOL IN HAVANA CUBA / Original CUBAN Silk-screen LIMITED EDITION Poster

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 and cultural posters, many of which work beautifully well together. To view all of the posters, including some from other countries, please visit our eBay Store stores.ebay.com/CubanPosterGallery where new listings are being posted regularly in both the Auction and Buy It Now/Best Offer formats. The Cuban Poster Gallery appreciates your business! Our price for this poster is $289. Here we are offering an original, limited edition Cuban screen-printed poster designed for a 2017 exhibition of screen-printed posters in Havana, Cuba. The Cuban designer of this poster illustrated his bold and colorful graphic with an image of the legendary American pop artist ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987) who is considered the father of the screen-printed poster, thanks to his iconic portraits of cultural and political icons such as Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Jackie Onassis and Mao. In a nod to Warhol's eclectic Pop Art style -- and to his own Caribbean roots -- Cuban designer Julio Llópiz-Casal depicts WARHOL with a bright yellow banana colliding into his bright red head, his hair a bit on the wild side (of course). The poster is titled CACA EN EL TALLER (CACA in the Workshop), the humorous, self-deprecating name of the Cuban poster club that mounted this exhibition. (CACA is the Spanish acronym for the Havana-based Friends of the Cuban Poster Club.) The May 2017 exhibition was held at the prestigious Rene Portocarrero screen-print workshop, named for the famous Cuban painter and graphic artist who founded the Old Havana workshop in 1984, the year before his death. The poster in this listing, which we call ANDY WARHOL IN HAVANA CUBA, is hand-signed and numbered by the artist, Julio Llópiz-Casal. Only 75 copies of this poster were made at the Portocarrero workshop. Warhol's name is printed alongside Llópiz-Casal's on the left side of the poster. This limited edition screen-print measures approximately 20 by 27 inches. Overall condition of the poster is good. As with most Cuban screen-prints, small imperfections can be expected because these graphics are handmade. 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: (ANDY WARHOL IN HAVANA CUBA) DESIGNER: Julio Llópiz-Casal (born 1984) MEDIUM: Screen-print YEAR: 2017 SIGNED: Yes, by the artist's hand NUMBERED: Yes, only 75 copies were made SIZE: approximately 20 x 27 inches; 51 x 68 cm ORIGIN: Havana, Cuba(Internal locator O-29 / E-1 / H-3 / S-1 / NN-1 )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, 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 and global graphics, we invite you to visit the Cuban Poster Gallery's eBay Store.

Price: 289 USD

Location: Washington, District Of Columbia

End Time: 2024-10-29T22:32:58.000Z

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