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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.
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OUR PRICE FOR THIS SIGNED, SPECIAL-EDITION POSTER IS $498
We are pleased to offer a signed and numbered Special Edition of the most celebrated Cuban poster of the past two decades -- a widely acclaimed and hard to find Cuban screen-print that was designed in Havana in 2010 for the vintage American film Clockwork Orange ("La naranja mecánica" in Spanish), directed by Stanley Kubrick.
This is one of only 10 copies of the Special Edition that were designed in 2010 by Nelson Ponce and screen-printed in 2017 at the prestigious Rene Portocarrero Serigraph Workshop in Havana. The poster was screen-printed on a heavier paper than the earlier edition, and it is numbered (in Roman Numerals) in the lower left corner. The poster also contains the dry seal of the Havana workshop where it was screen-printed.
This brilliant Pop Art poster was designed by Nelson Ponce in 2010 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) for films such as Cabaret, Silence of the Lambs, Rebel Without A Cause and Persona (the Ingmar Bergman classic). Nelson Ponce's Clockwork Orange poster was the grand prize winner of that competition! (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 Clockwork Orange poster measures 20 by 28 inches and was hand-signed by Nelson Ponce.
As mentioned above, Ponce's Clockwork Orange poster is the most celebrated Cuban graphic of the past two decades.
Here's why:
The 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, many of which we are offering this week on eBay. A copy of this spectacular poster was also displayed at the Academy for the 40th anniversary screening of Clockwork Orange in 2011. Actor Malcolm McDowell spoke after the screening in Los Angeles.
The poster was also exhibited in Havana in 2013 at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Cuban National Fine Arts Museum) exhibition on Cuban poster art. It was also chosen for inclusion in the spring/summer 2013 edition of SLANTED, a German design journal that was devoted almost entirely to Cuban poster art.
What's more, the poster is pictured in the 2013 French art book Cuba Grafica: Histoire de L'Affiche Cubaine, which devotes an entire chapter to Nelson Ponce's work--and an interview with the artist! And a full-page image of this poster is also pictured in the wonderful 2013 Italian publication ¡Mira Cuba! The Cuban Poster From 1959.
Another copy of this poster was also exhibited at CUBA HOY / CUBA TODAY, a December 2016 exhibition at the Bastille Design Center in Paris. And this poster was included in a 2017 exhibition of Cuban posters at the Pasadena Museum of California Art. And 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.
Yet another copy of this graphic appeared in a prestigious 2018 poster art retrospective at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (National Fine Arts Museum) in Havana. A full-page image of the poster is pictured in the exhibition's catalogue, signaling that the curators considered this one of the finest Cuban posters of all time. This celebrated graphic also was displayed at a July 2018 exhibition at the Embassy of Spain in Havana.
Quite notably, this poster was also displayed in an extensive 2019 exhibition of Cuban poster art at the prestigious Musée des Arts Décoratifs (Decorative Arts Museum) in Paris.
Overall condition of this handmade Special Edition poster is good. Since the poster was handmade, it could have some minor imperfections. Please note that the number on the poster you receive may differ from the one in the file photos we have posted since we have more than one copy of this graphic in our stock. Buy with 100 percent confidence; posters purchased from the Cuban Poster Gallery on eBay can be returned for any reason within 30 days.
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TITLE: La naranja mecánica ("Clockwork Orange"), designed to salute the 1971 U.S. film starring Malcolm McDowell and directed by Stanley Kubrick.
DESIGNER: Nelson Ponce (b. 1975)
SIGNED: Yes, by the artist's hand
MEDIUM: Silk-screen / Serigraph
YEAR: 2017
SIZE: 20 x 28 inches; 51 x 71 cm
NUMBERED: Yes, only 10 copies were made for this very limited edition.
ORIGIN: The Rene Portocarrero Serigraph Workshop in Havana, Cuba
Internal stock # P-7 / N-1 / N-1 unsi
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