THE 12 CHAIRS / CUBAN Silkscreen Movie Tribute Poster Salutes 1960s CUBA Comedy

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 regularly being posted in both the Auction and Buy It Now/Best Offer formats. The Cuban Poster Gallery appreciates your business! Our price for this poster is $249. Here we are offering an original, hard to find Cuban silk-screen movie poster that was designed in 1999 to salute LAS DOCE SILLAS (The Twelve Chairs), a 1962 Cuban comedy directed by the acclaimed Cuban film director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea. The movie centers around a hunt for jewels that have been hidden inside 12 dining room chairs. Please see below for a brief description of the movie. LAS DOCE SILLAS is a 20 x 30 inch poster (a standard size, so easy and inexpensive to frame) that was designed by Cuban graphics artist Fernando Bencomo in 1999 as part of an island-wide competition sponsored by the Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC). The film institute challenged artists to design a new poster for any classic Cuban film. Bencomo chose LAS DOCE SILLAS and he designed two posters to salute this movie. Both posters were silk-screened in the Cuban Film Institute's workshop in Havana. The single poster in this listing is the one that is pictured above. The other poster can also be found in our eBay Store. (Today, Bencomo works as a graphic artist in Miami.)A copy of this poster was displayed at an exhibition in Havana during the prestigious New Latin American International Film Festival in December 1999. Overall condition of this poster is good with minor creases on the white border. 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: Buyers with an address in the United States, your purchase will be shipped FREE by USPS First Class Package Service 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. ///Summary of movie: When her country is taken over by socialist revolutionaries, a wealthy woman can't bear to give up all of her wealth and possessions to the new government, so she hides all of her treasures in the 12 chairs of a dining-room set. After her death her nephew learns what she had done and, since the chairs had been "nationalized" and are now in the possession of a dozen different people, he sets out to track them down and get the treasures he believes rightfully belong to him. Source: IMDb TITLE: Las Doce Sillas (The 12 Chairs), designed to salute a 1962 Cuban film DESIGNER: Fernando Bencomo (born 1976) YEAR: 1999 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 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/cubanpostergallery

Price: 249 USD

Location: Washington, District Of Columbia

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