1969 Original ART Painting 4 Movie Poster"AMERICAN WAR"

This is a 1969 mockup or original painting (BOCETO in Spanish, meaning there is only one.This one) for the poster "De la guerra americana (From the American War) a Cuban movie about civil rights in the US and the opression of minorities. It was painted by Rene Azcuy using mixed media and signed in the back Rene Azcuy Cardenes, La Habana, 1969. This poster is one of the most published Cuban poster. I included a few pictures of books where the poster appears. Notice that the text does not make sense. The Cuban designers used to put anything written just to show the typographers the orientation and position of the letters. Unless they used their own typos (Bachs was known for his own fonts) this practice was common.
This drawing was the first step in the production of silkscreen movie posters. This was the design that was later photographed and enlarge to 20x30 inches and this is the reason they sometimes have the crisscross pencil pattern. In some other cases the artist would mark a clear plastic instead to protect the painted image, specially if they were fond to the painting. Judge the condition by the picture. These paintings were neglected for years. Once the poster was produced, the mockup was stored in a corner box were humidity and pests destroyed 99% of them. I rescued about 100 of them, the rest was trashed. When Eduardo Bachs died, the National Museum made a posthumous exhibition of his work they only found only 14 original drawings in the entire country. The artist himself only kept a couple that were adquired by the museum. Most of all artist like Niko and Bachs rarely kept samples of their work. This is the reason these mockups are so rare and of great interest for the collector.
Measures 6 x10 inches(16x25cm).The artist tempera brush strokes are clearly visible and the lettering in the title are painted directly on the board. This is a unique piece of poster history that I am sure will be a treasure for the fine collector.
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