In my ongoing quest to find great, unusual stuff to hang on my walls, I’ve discovered a few amazing poster artists I’d never known about. One is the Polish artist Jan Lenica. But first and foremost is the Cuban illustrator Eduardo Muñoz Bachs (1937-2001), who created more than two thousand posters, most of them for movies. He did much or most of his work for ICAIC, the Instituto Cubano de Arte e Industria Cinematografica, founded by the Castro government in 1960 to make and promote Cuban films. I found some of Bachs’s work online and I thought, I have to get some of these. Bachs used vibrant colors in a very Cuban way, and he had an incredible sense of space and proportion.

I now own four Bachs posters, including the first two below (I couldn’t find graphics of the other two I bought):

I found them here in New York at the Cuban Art Space at the Center for Cuban Studies, which is located at 124 West 23rd Street. They have a few dozen silkscreened Bachs posters for sale, as well as a bunch by other talented Cuban artists. Original posters are generally $100, high-quality reproductions (also silkscreened) are $55. I bought four reproductions, and had to stop myself from buying more. They’re a slightly odd size—20” X 30”—but after looking around for a while I found great frames in that exact size at Sam Flax, which is the go-to place in Manhattan for high-quality prefab frames.

Here is a 1995 interview with Bachs. To see more of his posters, and maybe buy one or two, try eBay, Stony Hill Antiques and Gallery in Madison, Wisconsin (linked page contains work by Bachs and other Cuban poster artists), and Soy Cubano, based in Cuba.