Chyortovo koleso (The Devil's Wheel)
Nikolai Tyrsa, 1926
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 8 x 10 in, Wrong shape: a 17% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyA chromolithographed one-sheet, 107 by 71 cm, published by Leningradkino in 1926 in an edition of 20,000. The first feature by Kozintsev and Trauberg's FEKS group, whose 'eccentric' method took circus, fairground and slapstick seriously as revolutionary form. Nikolai Tyrsa, who drew this sheet, was a serious painter and book illustrator working in the poster trade. The fairground wheel as an organising device — a form that lets a flat sheet imply rotation without drawing motion. The city as a machine that spins you off into somebody else's life.
- Maker
- Nikolai Tyrsa
- Date
- 1926
- 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-00753
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 | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 8 x 12 in | 94 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 11 x 14 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 12 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 12 x 18 in | 63 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 16 x 24 in | 47 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 18 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 20 x 30 in | 37 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 24 x 36 in | 31 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 36 x 48 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 40 x 60 in | 18 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 758 x 1,138 px, srgb, sRGB IEC61966-2.1
- Tone
- Darks 22, lights 190 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 8.31
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