TIME TO DIE Signed CUBAN Screen-print Poster for Mexico Movie + CUBA Art Project

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 GRAPHIC IS $489 The Cuban Poster Gallery is pleased to offer TIEMPO DE MORIR (TIME TO DIE), a fabulous hand-signed, original limited-edition screen-printed movie poster created in 2017 for a project unveiled at the prestigious Havana film festival. In December 2017, the Festival of New Latin American Cinema screened a number of classic Latin American films that had been expertly restored. One of the restored classics was TIEMPO DE MORIR, the classic 1968 Mexican Western film written by written by Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez and novelist Carlos Fuentes. (See below for a summary of the movie.) An original limited-edition tribute poster was created for each of the restored movies shown at the festival. Only 50 copies of this hard-to-find poster were screen-printed in Havana to offer to collectors, a print run that ensures this beautiful graphic will always be rare. This poster has been displayed at several exhibitions in Havana, including one at the Embassy of Spain that showcased posters from the CLASICOS RESTAURADOS (Restored Classics) series. A copy of this poster also was displayed in an extensive 2019 exhibition of Cuban poster art at the prestigious Musée des Arts Décoratifs (Decorative Arts Museum) in Paris. This special poster was designed and signed by Cuban graphic designer Roberto Ramos Mori, who is also a well-known Havana tattoo artist and costume designer. The poster was hand-signed and -numbered by the artist. We invite you to visit our eBay Store to see other screen-prints from the CLASICOS RESTAURADOS series. Overall condition of this 27 by 19 inch screen-print is good. As with most handmade Cuban graphics, some small imperfections can be expected. 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. Your original TIME TO DIE poster from the Restored Classics series will be shipped FREE to U.S. addresses by USPS Ground Advantage or UPS (with delivery confirmation) in a sturdy tube. 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 Movie (spoiler alert!): Juan Sagayo returns to his hometown after spending 18 years in prison for killing a man, Trueb, in cold blood. When Trueb's son, Julian, hears Sagayo has returned to town he demands that Sagayo face him in a duel to avenge his father's death. However Julian's brother, Pedro begins to doubt Sagayo is an honorless killer after meeting Sagayo and spending time with him. Then Pedro hears from his fiancé's father that in realty Trueb had provoked Sagayo till he was forced to kill him to preserve his honor as a man. Pedro tells Julian but he is unswayed by these stories and beats Pedro for even suggesting their father was anything less than perfect. Julian continues harassing Sagayo by following him around and destroying what's left of his house until finally Sagayo is forced to once again face Julian as he did his father to preserve his honor. Sagayo kills Julian, and in return, Pedro is forced to kill Sagayo. Source: Wikipedia TITLE: TIEMPO DE MORIR (TIME TO DIE), designed to salute a classic 1968 Mexican film. DESIGNER: Roberto Ramos Mori (b. 1975) MEDIUM: Screen-print / Serigraph YEAR: 2017 SIGNED: Yes, by the artist's hand. NUMBERED: Yes, only 50 copies were released for sale. SIZE: approximately 27 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches; 50 x 70 cm ORIGIN: Havana, Cuba (Internal locator #: H-4 / R-2 / ck H) 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: 489 USD

Location: Washington, District Of Columbia

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