SEVEN SAMURAI // Original Cuban Silkscreen Movie Tribute Poster / CUBA JAPAN

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 $249 Here we are offering an original Cuban silk-screen poster, designed in 2009 to salute the classic 1954 Japanese movie Los siete samurais (The Seven Samurai), directed by Akira Kurosawa. (See below for a brief description of this film.) This poster was designed 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 Cabaret, Rebel Without A Cause, Silence of the Lambs, Clockwork Orange 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 20 x 30 inch poster (a standard size so easy and inexpensive to frame) was designed by Cuban graphic artist Jorge Mendez. A copy of this poster was selected to appear in a prestigious 2018 poster art retrospective at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (National Fine Arts Museum) in Havana. Condition of this poster is very good with some minor wrinkles (common on many Cuban posters). Please examine the photos we have posted to judge the condition for yourself. And buy with 100 percent confidence; posters purchased on eBay from the Cuban Poster Gallery 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 Ground Advantage or UPS 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 summary of film: Seven Samurai is a 1954 Japanese epic historical drama adventure film co-written, edited, and directed by Akira Kurosawa. The story takes place in 1586 during the Warring States Period of Japan. It follows the story of a village of farmers that hire seven ronin (masterless samurai) to combat bandits who will return after the harvest to steal their crops… Since its release, Seven Samurai has consistently ranked high on critics' lists of the greatest films in motion picture history. Source: Wikipedia TITLE: Los siete sumurais (Seven Samurai), designed in Havana in 2009 to salute the classic 1954 movie from Japan DESIGNER: Jorge Mendez 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: http://stores.ebay.com/cubanpostergallery

Price: 249 USD

Location: Washington, District Of Columbia

End Time: 2024-08-14T21:06:02.000Z

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