NEW STRETCH Original Signed Cuban Silkscreen Poster for CUBA Pandemic Art Series

Description: To our collector, interior designer and eBay friends worldwide: The Cuban Poster Gallery in Washington D.C. is also offering a huge selection of handmade Cuban silk-screen movie and cultural 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 price for this poster is $249. Here we are offering a hard-to-find original and hand-signed Cuban screen-print that was designed in Havana in 2021 for an art project that examined how the worldwide pandemic has impacted the lives that we live. This imaginative poster, titled NEW STRETCH, suggests that the pandemic has taught us to become more flexible in our lives. We believe NEW STRETCH would be a wonderful decorative touch to an exercise room, gym or health club .... not to mention an unexpected gift to a P.E. teacher, physical therapist or personal trainer. This 19 1/2 by 27 1/2-inch limited-edition poster (only 100 copies were made) was designed by Havana, Cuba artist Carlos Perez Zamora (born 1991) who signs his name ZamoPeza. The poster was made in a prestigious screen-print workshop in the historic Habana Vieja neighborhood of the Cuban capital. The poster is numbered and has the dry seal of the workshop, adding to its authenticity. Interestingly, this poster was designed in Havana in 2021 when Cuba had largely closed its borders to foreign visitors due to the pandemic. We acquired this screen-print in 2022. If you like this graphic, we invite you to view two others that we acquired from this series, titled NEW COWBOY and NEW WORLD. Both are also available here in our eBay Store while supplies last. Overall condition of this hand-signed NEW STRETCH poster is good. As with most Cuban screen-prints, small imperfections can be expected because these graphics are handmade. But this poster is in great shape! 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. TITLE: NEW STRETCH DESIGNER: Carlos Perez Zamora (born 1991) who signs his name ZamoPeza. MEDIUM: Screen-print (silk-screen) YEAR: 2021 SIZE: approximately 19 1/2 x 27 1/2 inches; 49 x 70 cm SIGNED: Yes, by the artist's hand LIMITED EDITION: Yes. Only 100 copies exist. ORIGIN: Havana, Cuba A few words about collecting Cuba's silk-screen movie posters that we also offer here in our eBay Store: 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: 249 USD

Location: Washington, District Of Columbia

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