LIMITE // Signed CUBAN Screen-print Poster for BRAZIL Cult Movie HAVANA CUBA ART
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The Cuban Poster Gallery is delighted to offer LIMITE, a gorgeous hand-signed original limited-edition screen-printed movie poster created in 2017 for a project unveiled at the prestigious Havana film festival. In December 2017, the Festival of New Latin American Cinema screened a number of classic Latin American films that had been expertly restored. One of the restored classics was LIMITE , an award-winning 1931 Brazilian silent film. See below for a brief summary of this legendary cult film.An original limited-edition tribute poster was created in 2017 for each of the restored movies shown at the festival. Only 50 copies of this hard-to-find poster were screen-printed in Havana to offer to collectors, a print run that ensures this beautiful graphic will always be rare. We were impressed the first time we saw this poster in an exhibition at Cuba's fine arts museum in Havana (Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana) in the spring of 2018. We were delighted to acquire (both for sale and for our private collection) a few original copies of this poster and others in the CLASICOS RESTAURADOS (Restored Classics) series. This poster also has been displayed at other exhibitions, including one of the Embassy of Spain in Havana.
This special poster was designed. And signed by Claudio Sotolongo , a highly respected Cuban graphic designer and author who is a professor at the University of Havana. Sotolongo co-authored SOY CUBA, an anthology of Cuban movie poster art that is widely available. Work has been shown at exhibitions across the globe. The poster was hand-signed and -numbered by the artist. Overall condition of this 27 by 19 inch screen-print is good. As with most handmade Cuban graphics, some small imperfections can be expected.But this poster is in great shape! PS Ground Advantage or UPS. In August 1929, a man named Peixoto was in Paris, on a summer break from his studies in England, when he saw a photograph of two handcuffed male hands around the neck of a woman who was gazing at the camera. This became the key image in this iconic 1931 silent film, in which a man and two women are lost at sea in a rowboat.
Their pasts are conveyed in flashbacks throughout the film, clearly denoted by music. One woman has escaped from prison; another has left an oppressive and unhappy marriage; the man is in love with someone else's wife. The unusual structure has made LIMITE one of the most legendary cult movies in film history. TITLE: LIMITE, designed to salute this classic Brazilian film. SIGNED: Yes, by the artist's hand. NUMBERED: Yes, only 50 copies were released for sale. Approximately 27 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches.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 Cuba's vintage posters are imperiled. 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.