UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG / Signed Cuban Silk-screen Poster for French Movie / CUBA

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 $489 The Cuban Poster Gallery is delighted to offer The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (French: Les Parapluies de Cherbourg // Spanish: LOS PARAGUAS DE CHERBURGO), a limited-edition, hand-signed Cuban screen-printed poster designed in Havana, Cuba in 2019 to salute this award-winning 1964 French musical film starring a young Catherine Deneuve. This classic movie -- in which all of the dialogue is sung -- follows a torrid, war-time love affair between a teenage girl (played by Deneuve) and a young auto mechanic in Cherbourg, France. The movie was directed by Jacques Demy. The music was composed by the celebrated Michel Legrand.This brilliantly colorful Cuban tribute poster was unveiled in December 2019 at the prestigious New Latin American Film Festival in Havana as part of a celebrated series of silk-screened posters that salute classic world films that have been digitally restored.Only 50 copies of this hard-to-find poster exist and most were reserved for European diplomats in Havana. Various European embassies in Havana have co-sponsored the CLASICOS RESTAURADOS (Restored Classics) poster art series. We invite you to visit our eBay Store to view other screen-prints from this series. This original movie tribute poster -- titled in Spanish and French -- was designed and hand-signed by award-winning Cuban graphic artist Emilio Cruañas, a professor at the Higher Institute of Design in Havana who signs his artwork EMII. 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 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 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. TITLE: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (French: Les Parapluies de Cherbourg // Spanish: LOS PARAGUAS DE CHERBURGO), designed to salute this classic 1964 French film. DESIGNER: EMII (Emilio Cruañas, born 1995) MEDIUM: Screen-print / Serigraph YEAR: 2019 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 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

End Time: 2024-05-02T00:10:56.000Z

Shipping Cost: 0 USD