THE LAST SUPPER Cuban Silkscreen Poster for Movie About Slavery / CUBA Art Gem!

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 GRAPHIC IS $389 The Cuban Poster Gallery is thrilled to offer this hard-to-find, signed, limited-edition Cuban silk-screen tribute poster, designed in 2024 to salute LA ULTIMA CENA (The Last Supper), a 1976 movie about slavery in Cuba in the 18th century, directed by the famed Tomas Gutierrez Alea (1928-1996). This gem of a poster by Nelson Ponce depicts the Last Supper table as a clamp ("cepo" in Spanish), the wooden frame on which slaves were fastened as a punishment with holes for their head and hands. The importance of Cuba's Last Supper movie (see below for a brief description) was underscored when it was chosen by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to be digitally restored in 2019. The restored movie was screened in Havana (and introduced by Academy officials) at the 2019 New Latin American Film Festival. In 2021, the movie also was chosen to be shown at the prestigious Venice International Film Festival. THE LAST SUPPER poster in this listing was screen-printed in Havana in 2024 as part of a project, co-sponsored by the Embassy of Norway, to salute classic Cuban movies that have been expertly restored. A limited-edition screen-printed poster was created -- and exhibited in Havana -- for each of these CLASICOS RESTAURADOS (Restored Classics) movies. This striking poster was hand-signed by Nelson Ponce, a master of Cuban graphic art whose posters have been exhibited in museums worldwide. The poster measures approximately 27 1/2 by 19 1/2 inches (70 by 50 cm). Only 50 copies of this hard-to-find poster were screen-printed in Havana. About 20 were reserved for the artists and the project's sponsors, leaving only 30 to offer to collectors. This poster is signed and numbered. Since we have more than one copy in our stock, the number on the poster you receive may differ from the one in the file photos we have posted. Be assured that you will receive the lowest number in our stock. Overall condition of this poster is good. As with many handmade Cuban graphics, small imperfections are possible. 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. Brief synopsis of movie: The film tells the story of a pious Cuban plantation owner in the 1790s during Cuba's Spanish colonial period. The plantation owner decides to recreate the Biblical Last Supper using twelve of the slaves working in his sugarcane fields, hoping to teach them about Christianity. In a misguided attempt to enlighten his African-born slaves, the plantation owner invites twelve of them to a Holy Week dinner to re-enact the Last Supper with himself as Christ. While they eat and drink, he also feeds them religious rhetoric about the workings of Christianity. He promises the slaves a day off on Good Friday and commits to free one of them. However, when these promises are not held up the next day, the slaves rebel. They are then hunted down and killed by their master, except for one who escapes. Source: Wikipedia TITLE: LA ULTIMA CENA (The Last Supper), designed for a classic 1976 Cuban film DESIGNER: Nelson Ponce (born 1975) MEDIUM: Screen-print / Serigraph YEAR: 2024 SIGNED: Yes, by the artist's hand NUMBERED: Yes, 50 copies were printed but only 30 were offered for sale SIZE: approximately 27 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches; 50 x 70 cm ORIGIN: Havana, Cuba (Internal locator #: P-5) 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. 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 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: 389 USD

Location: Washington, District Of Columbia

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