Sale / THE SHINING / Original Cuban Silk-screen Movie Tribute Poster / CUBA ART

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 $289 Here we are offering a celebratred (and rarely seen) ORIGINAL 2009 Cuban silkscreen poster that salutes THE SHINING ("El Resplandor" in Spanish), the British-American psychological horror film (directed by Stanley Kubrick) that starred Jack Nicholson. This poster was designed in 2009 for a competition, sponsored by the Cuban Film Institute, that challenged Cuban designers to make a poster for any classic world film. The competition resulted in some outstanding silk-screened posters (all made in very small numbers; less than 100 copies!) for films such as Rebel Without A Cause, Silence of the Lambs, Clockwork Orange, Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood and Persona (the classic Igmar Bergman film). The Cuban Poster Gallery has acquired a few copies of these rarely seen posters; we invite you add them to your collection before they are gone. This listing offers a copy of the edgy SHINING silk-screen poster, which was displayed at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 2011 exhibition “Cuban Film Posters: From Havana to the World" in Beverly Hills, Calif. The exhibit featured 125 Cuban film posters, many of which we are listing here on eBay. This poster also was included in a 2017 exhibition of Cuban posters at the Pasadena Museum of California Art. A copy of this poster was displayed in an extensive 2019 exhibition of Cuban poster art at the prestigious Musée des Arts Décoratifs (Decorative Arts Museum) in Paris. Another copy of this poster was displayed at “Artes de Cuba: From the Island to the World,” the 2018 cultural festival at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C. And this graphic was selected to appear in the prestigious 2018 poster art retrospective at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (National Fine Arts Museum) in Havana. The poster is pictured in the exhibition's catalogue. A copy of this graphic also was displayed at a 2018 exhibition at the Embassy of Spain in Havana. (The bike in the poster? See below for a brief summary of the significance.) This original 20 by 30 inch poster (a standard size, so easy and inexpensive to frame) was designed in 2009 by Raúl Valdes, a talented Cuban graphic artist known as RAUPA. The poster was silk-screened in the Cuban Film Institute's workshop in Havana. Overall condition of this poster is good with some imperfections, including bends and wrinkles on the white border around the main image. These imperfections cannot be seen in the file photos we have posted. The main image is in really good 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: 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. /// The significance of the bike in the poster? After a night of drunken carousing, Al Shockley and Jack run into a child's bicycle on the road. Jack is sure they've hit a child, but, apparently, they haven't. Jack and Al find no body and no mention of a child missing or dead in the newspapers. For Jack, the bike is a flashing sign: STOP DRINKING!!! And he does. The idea he's killed a child literally scares him sober.TITLE: EL RESPLENDOR ("The Shining"), designed to salute the 1980 British-American psychological horror film starring Jack Nicholson DESIGNER: Raúl Valdes (b. 1975), who is known as RAUPA YEAR: 2009 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, 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: https://stores.ebay.com/cubanpostergallery

Price: 198 USD

Location: Washington, District Of Columbia

End Time: 2024-08-09T16:12:37.000Z

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