Doch Rafke (Fräulein Raffke)
Alexander Naumov, 1927
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 8 x 10 in, Wrong shape: a 32% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyA chromolithograph issued in Leningrad by Mezhrabpom-Rus in 1927 for the Soviet release of a German film. Imported pictures were a substantial part of Soviet exhibition through the 1920s, and studios routinely commissioned entirely new domestic posters rather than reprinting foreign ones. The result is a genuinely Soviet graphic object attached to a foreign film. The tall, narrow proportion of the sheet, which forces the composition into a vertical stack rather than a centred scene. A foreign story, redrawn in the local accent.
- Maker
- Alexander Naumov
- Date
- 1927
- 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-00749
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 32% crop |
| 8 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 18% crop |
| 11 x 14 in | Wrong shape: a 31% crop |
| 12 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 27% crop |
| 12 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 18% crop |
| 16 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 32% crop |
| 16 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 18% crop |
| 18 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 27% crop |
| 20 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 18% crop |
| 24 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 32% crop |
| 24 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 18% crop |
| 30 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 27% crop |
| 36 x 48 in | Wrong shape: a 27% crop |
| 40 x 60 in | Wrong shape: a 18% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 1,272 x 2,331 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 40, lights 223 of 255; 0.1% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 6.46
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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