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1979 Cuban Silkscreen Poster for Soviet Film Pieza Inconclusa by Russian Director and Actor Nikita Mijalkov (b.1945).   Surrealist silkscreen art work by  Antonio Fernández Reboiro. Reminiscent of Rene Magrite, it depicts an arm holding a hand with a hole in the center holding a broken cigarette.

The Soviet film from 1977  “An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano” was adapted from the work, written for the theater,  Platónov by  Antón Chéjov (1860-1904).  The comedy-drama period film shows the decadence of Russian society in late 1800s.  The play was rejected when first written in 1880 and was found in a bank’s safe deposit box in 1921 after Chéjov death.

Titled “Pieza Inconclusa Para Piano Mecanico Film Sovietico de Nikita Mijalkov”  reboiro/79 and ink signed reboiro.

Condtion: Very Good. No issues.   Measurement: 18 inches wide x 28 inches high.

Antonio Fernández Reboiro  is a Cuban Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1935. He studied medicine and architecture at the University of Havana. In 1963 he began working at the ICAIC (Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry) until 1982 designing posters.

Most of the highly collectible Cuban posters are from mid-1960s through early 1980s, the period called “el periodo de oro de la grafica cubana” (golden period of Cuban graphics). These silkscreens were develop with new graphic techniques, due in part that materials were not readily available and lack of formal graphic schools. The Cuban posters became known for the use of bold innovate images which were mostly for proganda. Among the most important were the movie posters of the ICAIC which would promote the national movie industry as well as foreign films.

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