Chiny i lyudi (Ranks and People)
Mospoligraf, Second State Chromolithography, Moscow, 1929
$90
Print check at 12 x 8 in: 199 dpi, good. Trimmed 1.6% to the shape of the print.
Shipping to a US address: $24.80 for this piece, from the print room in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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A colour lithograph in the landscape format, 72 by 108 cm, published by Mezhrabpom-Film in 1929 and printed at the Second State Chromolithography of Mospoligraf, edition of 10,000. Yakov Protazanov was the most commercially fluent director working in the USSR, and this Chekhov anthology shows the montage-era poster style applied to material that is anything but revolutionary — proof of how completely the new graphic language had taken over. The horizontal format itself: most Soviet one-sheets stand upright, and a landscape sheet was a deliberate and more expensive choice of billing space. Chekhov's petty officials, advertised in the visual language of the avant-garde.
- Maker
- Mospoligraf, Second State Chromolithography, Moscow
- Date
- 1929
- Medium of the original
- One-sheet poster
- Original held by
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit
- Wikimedia Commons · via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Cleared for print
- Catalogue number
- PA-00746
| Picture | 12 x 8 in |
|---|---|
| Outside size | 13.6 x 9.6 in |
| Depth | 0.9 in (22 mm) |
| Weight | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]] |
| Hanging | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]] |
| Material | Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing |
| Made in | Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi |
Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.
| Size | dpi | Grade | How it fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 x 8 in | 199 | Good | Trimmed 1.6% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 10 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 18% crop |
| 14 x 11 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 16 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 18 x 12 in | 132 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 18% crop |
| 24 x 16 in | 99 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 30 x 20 in | 79 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 18% crop |
| 36 x 24 in | 66 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 48 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 60 x 40 in | 39 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 2,430 x 1,594 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 20, lights 196 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 4.7% vivid
- Sharpness
- 36.66
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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