LADY LIBERTY SELFIE IN HAVANA Signed CUBAN Screenprint Poster / ALMOST SOLD OUT

  

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The Cuban Poster Gallery appreciates your business! This imaginative, limited-edition Pop Art screen-print shows Lady Liberty taking a. Selfie as she is driven by a red-capped Cuban revolutionary in a hot-red vintage American car. The designer of this poster-- award-winning Cuban painter, illustrator and graphic artist Arístides Hernández (known as ARES) -- was undoubtedly inspired by the increasing number of U.

Tourists who are visible on the streets of Havana, often riding down the seaside Malecon in shiny, rented 1950s American cars. Only 50 copies of this numbered First Edition poster were screened by ARES. In addition to his cutting edge poster art, ARES has published 18 books and illustrated 170 others, winning more than 125 awards in Europe, the Americas and Middle East. Fun fact: ARES also has a medical degree with a specialty in psychiatry. President Barack Obama's historic visit to Havana in March 2016 and the Rolling Stones' concert in the Cuban capital a week later.

We only offer authentic copies of the artist's work. Overall condition of this LADY LIBERTY Selfie in Havana poster (which measures 27.5 x 19.5 inches) is very good. Please note that small imperfections can be expected on this and most other handmade Cuban screen-prints. TITLE: Lady Liberty Selfie in Havana, designed in 2015 to salute the newly established relations between the United States and Cuba. DESIGNER: ARES (Arístides Hernández) (born 1963 in Havana, Cuba).

27.7 x 19.5 inches; 70 x 50 cm. SIGNED: Yes, by the artist's hand. 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.

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. 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. 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 consider both to be collectible, and (in response to a question we often get) all of these posters were legally imported because the U. 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.