ROLLING STONES In CUBA -- Rare Cuban Screenprint Poster Salutes Historic Concert

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ROLLING STONES In CUBA -- Rare Cuban Screenprint Poster Salutes Historic Concert:
$589.00

To our collector, interior designer and friends worldwide: The Cuban Poster Gallery in Washington D.C. is offering a huge selection of handmade Cubanposters, many of which work beautifully well together.To view all of the posters, please visit our store (CubanPosterGallery.com), where new listings arebeing posted every week in both the sale and Buy It Now/Best Offer formats. We also invite you to visit (and \"like\") our Facebook style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">The Cuban Poster Gallery appreciates your business!

The Cuban Poster Gallery is pleased to offerTHE ROLLING STONES in Havana Cuba, a raresigned and numbered original Cubanscreen-printed posterdesigned to salute the historic March 25, 2016 concert in Havana byMick Jagger and the Rolling Stones. The concert was the first by a major international rock group in Cuba, and itfollowed there-establishment of diplomatic relations between Cuba and the United Statesafter 50+ years.

This brilliant, limited-edition Pop Art screen-printshowsMickJagger against a red background with the word Satisfaction repeated--a reference, of course,to the Rolling Stones\' 1965 mega hit. Thefree concertin Havana drewhundreds of thousands to the city\'sCiudad Deportiva (SportsCity) complex. The audience included the designer of this poster--award-winning Cuban painter, illustratorand graphic artist Arístides Hernández,who is known as ARES.

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 andMiddle East.Fun fact: ARES also has a medical degree with a specialty inpsychiatry. (If you like his work,we invite you to viewotherARES posters we are offering in ourstore, including one that commemorates U.S. President Barack Obama\'shistoric visit toHavana in 2016. Please note that we have seen some unauthorized reproductions of ARES posters being sold on the streets of Habana.We only offer authentic copies of the artist\'s work.)

Overall condition of this ROLLING STONESposter (which measures 27.5 x 20 inches) isvery good. Please note thatsmall imperfections can be expected on this and most other handmade Cuban screen-prints.Buywith 100 percent confidence; posters purchasedfrom the Cuban Poster Gallery on can be returned for any reason within 14 days.

Your original, signed and numberedCuban THE ROLLING STONES IN HAVANA CUBAposter will be shipped FREEto U.S. addresses (by US Priority Mail) in a sturdy tube. Overnight USPS Express Mail delivery to U.S. addresses is available for a flat $25 for an unlimited number of posters purchased on the same day. International shipping is offered for a flat $30 to all other countries via USPS International First Class Mail, but FREE if you buy 3 or more posters on the same day. Customers outside the United States: please contact us for a quote if you require faster shipping.International customers are responsible for paying any Customs-related duties or taxes assessed by their countries.

TITLE:THE ROLLING STONES,designedto commemorate the historic March 2016 concert by the legendary British rock group inHavana, Cuba

DESIGNER: ARES (Arístides Hernández) (born 1963 in Havana, Cuba)

YEAR: 2016

MEDIUM: Screen-print / Serigraph

SIZE: 27.7 x 20 inches; 70 x 50 cm

ORIGIN: Havana,Cuba

A few words about collecting Cuba\'s silk-screen movie posters, which we also offer in our store:

For more than 50 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 collectibility, Cuba\'s movie posters are produced in relatively smallnumbers. 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 theircollectibility, 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 and2nd Edition postersto our customers on 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 us, these are utterly worthless as collectibles.

To our 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.

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