BICYCLE THIEVES Original Cuban Silkscreen Tribute Poster for Italian 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 being posted every week in both the Auction and Buy It Now/Best Offer formats. 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 BICYCLE THIEVES (LADRONES DE BICICLETAS in Spanish), the classic, award-winning 1948 Italian movie. See below for a brief description of the film, which was directed by Vittorio De Sica. This handmade Cuban poster was designed by Giselle Monzón, one of Cuba's most talented young artists, in the ICAIC (Cuban Film Institute) silk-screen workshop in Havana. Like most Cuban movie posters, this one measures 20 by 30 inches--a standard size, so easy and inexpensive to frame. This is one of the most celebrated modern Cuban posters. A copy of this poster is in the permanent collection of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles. This poster also was displayed in an extensive 2019 exhibition of Cuban poster art at the prestigious Musée des Arts Décoratifs (Decorative Arts Museum) in Paris. An image of the poster also has been published in many books about Cuban poster art, including MIRA CUBA, HECHO EN CUBA and the German design journal SLANTED, which devoted an entire issue to Cuban art and culture in 2013. Another copy of this graphic also was selected to appear in a prestigious 2018 poster art retrospective at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (National Fine Arts Museum) in Havana. The Bicycle Thieves poster is among several dozen that were designed in Havana in 2009 and 2010 as tributes to classic world (non-Cuban) films, including Cabaret, The Rope, Clockwork Orange and Silence of the Lambs. We have many of these posters available for sale today in our eBay Store.Overall condition of the Bicycle Thieves 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: 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: Ricci, an unemployed man in the depressed economy of post-World War II Italy, finally lands a good job -- for which he needs a bike -- hanging up posters. But soon his bicycle is stolen. He and his son walk the streets of Rome, looking for the bicycle. Ricci manages to locate the thief but with no proof, he has to abandon his cause. But he and his son know perfectly well that without a bike, Ricci won't be able to keep his job and support his poor family. Source: Internet Movie Database.TITLE: BICYCLE THIEVES (LADRONES DE BICICLETAS), designed as a tribute to the famed 1948 Italian 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: 298 USD

Location: Washington, District Of Columbia

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