JOHN LENNON IN HAVANA // Rare Original CUBAN Poster by Famed Cuba Artist FABELO

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 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 $489. The Cuban Poster Gallery is delighted to offer LENNON EN LA HABANA (LENNON IN HAVANA), a rare Cuban poster designed in 2000 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the death in New York City of John Lennon, the musician and songwriter who gained worldwide fame as a member of the Beatles. This special poster was designed by the famed Cuban painter, sculptor and illustrator ROBERTO FABELO (b. 1951) for a Dec. 8, 2000 ceremony in a leafy Havana park where then-Cuban President Fidel Castro unveiled a bronze, life-sized sculpture of John Lennon. The poster and sculpture of Lennon (seated on a park bench) were unveiled 20 years to the day after the ex-Beatle was killed outside his Upper West Side townhouse. The park in Havana was renamed Parque John Lennon. This thought-provoking poster by Roberto Fabelo (whose work can be found in museums around the world) offers a Spanish translation of the iconic lyrics from John Lennon's timeless song IMAGINE: "You may say I'm a dreamer, but i'm not the only one." This original Cuban poster -- printed on glossy paper -- measures approximately 27 by 19.5 inches. As the poster states, this graphic was commissioned by Cuba's Ministry of Culture and two other Havana-based cultural organizations.There is an irony that Cuba's communist government so honored John Lennon because the music of the Beatles was banned on the island during the Cold-War 1960s when Castro deemed the British rock group a tool of Western capitalist culture. Today, in addition to John Lennon Park, a trendy bar/restaurant named Submarino Amarillo (Yellow Submarine) can be found in the Havana capital.Another copy of this rare poster can be found on the walls of the prestigious Havana restaurant Paladar San Cristobal, which has hosted numerous celebrities including Beyonce, Jay-Z, Mick Jagger, as well as President Barack Obama and his family when they visited Cuba in 2016. Overall condition of the LENNON EN LA HABANA poster is good. Please note that small imperfections can be expected on this and many other Cuban posters. Buy with 100 percent confidence; posters purchased from the Cuban Poster Gallery on eBay can be returned for any reason within 30 days. Your original Cuban JOHN LENNON IN HAVANA poster will be shipped FREE to U.S. addresses by USPS Ground Advantage or UPS (with delivery confirmation) in a sturdy tube. For international buyers (outside of the United States), eBay will calculate the cost of shipping and any required Customs duties and taxes. TITLE: LENNON EN LA HABANA (LENNON IN HAVANA) DESIGNER: Roberto Fabelo (b. 1951) YEAR: 2000 MEDIUM: Offset on glossy paper SIZE: 27 x 19.5 inches; 70 x 50 cm ORIGINAL: Yes ORIGIN: Havana, Cuba A few words about collecting Cuba's silk-screen movie posters, which we also offer 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: 489 USD

Location: Washington, District Of Columbia

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