METELLO / 1971 CUBAN Silkscreen Art Poster for Italian Movie / Signed by REBOIRO

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 http://stores.ebay.com/CubanPosterGallerywhere 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 vintage hand-signed poster is $1949. Here is a Cuban graphic arts masterpiece -- a rarely seen, hand-signed original silk-screen movie poster designed by an artist whose work can be found in museums worldwide. This original vintage poster came from the private collection of award-winning Cuban artist Antonio Fernández Reboiro, who moved from Havana to Madrid in the 1980s and died in Spain in January 2020. This hard-to-find silk-screen was designed by Reboiro in 1971 for the first showing in Cuba of the Italian movie METELLO. Please see below for a brief description of the film, which tells the story of a labor activist and the struggles in his personal life. The 1970 movie, which was entered into the Cannes Film Festival, was directed by Mauro Bolognini and starred Massimo Ranieri. Antonio Reboiro's sought-after posters can be found in many museums and prestigious private collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles. A selection of Reboiro posters was on view at MoMA in late 2015 and early 2016. Reboiro’s work also was highlighted in an extensive 2019 exhibition of Cuban poster art at the prestigious Musée des Arts Décoratifs (Decorative Arts Museum) in Paris. This hand-signed 27 1/2 by 18 inch poster was made in the Cuban Film Institute's silk-screen workshop in Havana in 1971, a decade before Reboiro left Cuba to live in Spain, carrying a treasure trove of his poster art with him. As mentioned above, this poster comes from Reboiro's personal collection in Madrid. Please note that the hand-signed posters in Reboiro's private collection do not have the white borders that most Cuban movie posters have, so we recommend framing them with a mat. We also invite you to view the other Reboiro posters we have for sale here in our eBay Store. Many work beautifully well together and, as we have noted, they are true museum pieces. Overall condition of this poster is good with some minimal paint loss and a 1 1/2-inch tear on the bottom border. Please see the multiple images we have posted. 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 Priority Mail 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: Set in 19th century Florence, this is the tale of a young, aspiring labor activist, Metello Salani, whose life takes a turn when he strays from his wife and child and is seduced by an older woman. Source: Adapted from IMDb TITLE: METELLO, designed in 1971 for the first Cuban showing of this 1970 Italian movie DESIGNER: Antonio Fernández Reboiro (1935-2020) YEAR: 1971 MEDIUM: Silk-screen / Serigraph SIZE: approximately 27.5 by 18 inches; 69 x 46 cm SIGNED: Yes, by the artist's hand ORIGIN: the ICAIC (Cuban Film Institute) silk-screen 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. 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: 1949 USD

Location: Washington, District Of Columbia

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