VIRGIN OF REGLA Original CUBAN Serigraph Signed by Cuba Master ALFREDO SOSABRAVO

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 silk-screen 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 regularly being posted in both the Auction and Buy It Now/Best Offer formats. The Cuban Poster Gallery appreciates your business! Our price for this graphic is $649. The Cuban Poster gallery is delighted to offer VIRGEN (VIRGIN), a hand-signed and numbered limited-edition serigraph by famed Cuban artist ALFREDO SOSABRAVO (born in 1930), whose paintings, graphics and sculptures can be found in major collections, galleries, auction houses and museums worldwide. A largely self-taught artist, Sosabravo has won numerous awards in Cuba and abroad, and he also became a master potter after studying in Italy in the 1960s. Now in his 90s, Alfedo Sosabravo continues to work--and travel. For example, in January 2022, at age 91, he traveled to Beijing to open an exhibition of his work at the National Art Museum of China.This SOSABRAVO folk art masterpiece is a salute to the Virgin of Regla, an important religious figure not only for Catholics in Cuba (who call her the Black Madonna) but for believers of the Afro-Cuban faith Santeria who call her Yemaya, the Queen of the Seas or Goddess of the Oceans. The VIRGEN DE REGLA is honored each September 8th by devotees in the Caribbean, Spain, the Philippines and the United States. In Cuba, the feast is celebrated in Regla, a bayside suburb of Havana with a long tradition of Santeria. Only 75 copies of this original serigraph (also known as silkscreen) were made in a prestigious screen-print workshop in Havana. Sosabravo supervised the printing of this graphic and personally signed, titled and dated the artwork in 2017. A stylish addition to any home or office, this marvelously colorful, tropical-themed Cuban graphic took two months to screen-print because it contains several dozen different colors. In the artisanal silk-screening process, each color in a piece must be applied with a separate screen.The VIRGIN OF REGLA graphic measures approximately 22 1/2 x 33 inches, which includes the white border. This extraordinary SOSABRAVO serigraph was screen-printed on acid-free art paper from the famed ARCHES paper mill (founded in 1492) in France.Overall condition of this original graphic is good, although small imperfections can be expected in this (and many) handmade Cuban silk-screens. The colors in this graphic are brilliant! Since we have more than one copy of this serigraph in our stock, the number on the graphic you receive may be different than the one in the file photo we have posted. Buy with 100 percent confidence; posters purchased on eBay from the Cuban Poster Gallery 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. (Separately, we are also offering a book about the work of Alfredo Sosabravo. You can find this book and others about Cuban art in our eBay Store under the heading CUBAN BOOKS.) TITLE: VIRGEN (VIRGIN), a salute to the Virgin of Regla DESIGNER: Alfredo Sosabravo (born 1930 in Sagua La Grande, Cuba) YEAR: 2021 MEDIUM: Silk-screen / Serigraph SIZE: approximately 22 1/2 x 33 (57 x 84 cm) including the white border SIGNED AND NUMBERED: Yes. And only 75 copies exist. ORIGIN: Havana, Cuba A few words about collecting Cuba's silk-screen movie posters, which 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: 649 USD

Location: Washington, District Of Columbia

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