Sale / ROPE Cuban Silkscreen Tribute Poster for Alfred Hitchcock Movie CUBA ART

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 We are pleased to offer this brilliant original Cuban silk-screen poster, designed in 2009 as a tribute to ROPE (LA SOGA in Spanish), the 1948 American psychological crime thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock. See below for a brief description of this classic film.This handmade Cuban poster was designed by Giselle Monzón, one of Cuba's most talented young artists, and screen-printed in the ICAIC (Cuban Film Institute) workshop in Havana. Like most Cuban movie posters, this one measures 20 by 30 inches--a standard size, so easy and inexpensive to frame.A copy of this poster is in the permanent collection of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles. The Academy has a large collection of Cuban silkscreen posters. This poster also was included in a 2017 exhibition of Cuban posters at the Pasadena Museum of California Art. A copy of this poster was displayed at “Artes de Cuba: From the Island to the World,” the 2018 cultural festival at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C. Another copy of this graphic also was selected to appear in the prestigious 2018 poster art retrospective at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (National Fine Arts Museum) in Havana.This special graphic also was displayed at a July 2018 exhibition at the Embassy of Spain in Havana. Quite notably, a copy of this poster was displayed in an extensive 2019 exhibition of Cuban poster art at the prestigious Musée des Arts Décoratifs (Decorative Arts Museum) in Paris.The ROPE poster is among several dozen that were designed in Havana in 2009 and 2010 as a tribute to classic world (non-Cuban) films, including Cabaret, Bicycle Thief, Clockwork Orange and Silence of the Lambs. We have many of these posters available for sale in our eBay Store. Overall condition of the ROPE poster is good. Please note that minor imperfections, including slight ripples or wrinkles in the white borders around the images, can be found on many Cuban silk-screens, including this one. See the images we have posted and buy with 100 percent confidence; posters purchased from the Cuban Poster Gallery on eBay can be returned for any reason within 30 days. 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. Brief summary of movie: Two brilliant young aesthetes, Brandon Shaw (Dall) and Phillip Morgan (Granger), strangle to death their former classmate from Harvard University, David Kentley (Dick Hogan), in their apartment. They commit the crime as an intellectual exercise; they want to prove their superiority by committing the "perfect murder". After hiding the body in a large antique wooden chest, Brandon and Phillip host a dinner party at the apartment, which has a panoramic view of Manhattan's skyline. The guests, who are unaware of what has happened, include the victim's father and aunt. Source: Wikipedia TITLE: LA SOGA (ROPE), designed as a tribute to the famed 1948 Alfred Hitchcock movie DESIGNER: Giselle Monzón (b. 1979) MEDIUM: Silkscreen / Serigraph YEAR: 2009 SIZE: 20 x 30 inches; 51 x 76 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 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: 149 USD

Location: Washington, District Of Columbia

End Time: 2025-01-11T20:39:37.000Z

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