VAMPIRES IN HAVANA Cuban Silkscreen Movie Poster by Bachs LIMITED EDITION of 50

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, where new listings are being posted every week in both the Auction and Buy It Now/Best Offer formats. Visit us at stores.ebay.com/CubanPosterGallery The Cuban Poster Gallery appreciates your business! Our regular price for this poster is $298 The Cuban Poster Gallery is thrilled to offer this special, limited edition silk-screen poster, handmade in Havana, Cuba for the classic 1985 animated Cuban film Vampiros en la Habana (Vampires in Havana). See below for a brief description of this campy cult film, which was made by the legendary Cuban animated film director Juan Padrón (1947-2020). Only 50 copies of this numbered limited-edition print were made in Havana in early 2024 as part of a Cuban film festival, celebrating the 65th anniversary of ICAIC, the Cuban film institute. We have been told that this special edition poster, which was printed on heavier paper that the regular ICAIC posters, has sold out. The poster was screen-printed at the prestigious Rene Portocarrero serigraph workshop in the colonial district of Havana. This whimsical poster--a fabulous gift!--shows a benevolent-looking vampire with a Cuban cigar and wearing a traditional Cuban guayabera shirt. The poster was designed by graphic-arts master Eduardo Muñoz Bachs (1937-2001), whose work can be found in many prestigious collections worldwide, from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles to The Victoria and Albert Museum in London. VAMPIROS EN LA HABANA may be the most celebrated Cuban movie poster ever made. A copy of the Vampiros en la Habana poster is in the permanent collection of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in L.A. A copy of this poster also was chosen for inclusion in the superb Spanish anthology El Cartel de Cine Cubano (The Cuban Film Poster) 1961-2004 and the 2013 French art book Cuba Grafica: Histoire de L'Affiche Cubaine, which devoted a chapter to Bachs' long career and wonderful work. Bachs' famed Vampiros poster also is pictured in the 2016 book Hecho en Cuba: Cinema in the Cuban Graphics, which was published for an extensive exhibition of Cuban poster art in Italy. This 20 by 27.5 inch poster (slightly smaller than the standard sized 20 by 30 inch Cuban movie posters) was released by the Cuban Film Institute in early 2024--almost four decades after the poster and humorous Cold War-era movie first appeared. Overall condition of this limited-edition Vampires in Havana poster is good; as with many Cuban movie posters, please note you might find some small imperfections because these posters are handmade. Buy with 100 percent confidence; posters purchased from the Cuban Poster Gallery on eBay can be returned for any reason within 30 days. We have posted a file photo of the poster. The number on the poster you receive may differ from the one in the file photo. We pledge to send you the lowest number in our stock. 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. Synopsis of film: "Vampiros en la Habana" is a hilarious low-budget spoof of vampire and gangster movies (it can easily be found on DVD with English subtitles). A scientist invents a potion that allows vampires to live under the rays of the sun. When word gets out to the vampires of the world, they fly to Cuba to gain control of the potion. A battle unfolds between the American vampires (portrayed as Chicago mobsters) and East European vampires, giving the film a campy Cold War flavor. (We are also separately offering a book about the work of Eduardo Muñoz Bachs. You can find this book and others about Cuban art in our eBay Store or you can search on eBay for this book with the key words CUBAN BOOK BACHS ) TITLE: Vampiros en la Habana ("Vampires in Havana"), a Cuban animated film directed by Juan Padron. DESIGNER: Eduardo Muñoz Bachs (1937-2001) MEDIUM: Silk-screen / Serigraph SIZE: 20 x 27.5 inches; 51 x 70 cm ORIGIN: Havana, Cuba (Internal stock # P-5) 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, insect infestation, 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: 298 USD

Location: Washington, District Of Columbia

End Time: 2024-05-08T16:11:21.000Z

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