Cuban Silkscreen Movie Poster for '70s Sports Documentary CUBA Olympics affiche

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To our collector, designer and EBay friends worldwide: This spring the Cuban Poster Gallery in Washington D.C. is offering -- with Buy It Now prices -- more than 100 authentic, handmade Cuban silk-screen movie posters, many of which work beautifully well together. We invite you to send us a reasonable offer for any poster you would like to own. To view all of these beautiful posters, Buy any poster NOW or make us an offer. The Cuban Poster Gallery appreciates your business. Stylish handmade Cuban silk-screen poster titled El deporte en el cine (Sports In The Movies); it was designed for a 1975 documentary about the subject of sports in the Cuban cinema. (Cuba has won more 200 medals at the summer Olympics.) This silk-screen is another example of the masterful artwork produced by one of Cuba 's most famous designers, Antonio Fernández Reboiro , who now lives in Madrid. Reboiro's work can be found in many world museums, including MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. This 20 by 30 inch poster (a standard size, so easy and inexpensive to frame) was silk-screened in the ICAIC (Cuban Film Institute) workshop in Havana in the past 15 years, some years after the poster was first released. A word about Cuban silkscreens: Once the "first runs" are sold, the Cuban Film Institute will sometimes (not always) make a limited number of official re-screens, using the same handmade, one-color-at-a-time techniques. Beware of cheap, photocopied, mass-produced reproduction "Cuban posters" made in the U.S. that lack the authenticity of the true Cuban silkscreens. Condition of this poster is very good; as with all Cuban movie posters, please note that you might find some slight ripples or wrinkles in the white borders around the images and small imperfections elsewhere because these posters are, after all, handmade. Buy with 100 percent confidence; posters purchased from the Cuban Poster Gallery can be returned for any reason within 14 days. Your Sports in the Movies poster will be shipped FREE to U.S. addresses by USPS Priority Mail (with delivery confirmation) in a sturdy tube. International shipping for a flat $20 or FREE if you buy 3 or more posters this week. TITLE: El deporte en el cine (Sports in the Movies), designed for a 1975 Cuban documentary DESIGNER: Antonio Fernández Reboiro (b. 1935) MEDIUM: Silkscreen / Serigraph SIZE: 20 x 30 inches; 76 x 51 cm ORIGIN: the ICAIC (Cuban Film Institute) silkscreen workshop in Havana , Cuba A few words about collecting Cuba 's silk-screen movie posters: For more than 50 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 ... read more

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