In the Mire
Maxim Litvak-Maximov, 1927
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 8 x 10 in, Wrong shape: a 15% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyPoster for a 1927 Soviet social drama by artist Maxim Litvak-Maximov. Films about backsliding and vice were framed as a fight of clean line against murk. Litvak-Maximov weighs the composition downward into its title. New world dragged downward
- Maker
- Maxim Litvak-Maximov
- Date
- 1927
- Medium of the original
- Poster
- Original held by
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit
- Wikimedia Commons · via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Cleared for print
- Catalogue number
- PA-00692
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 15% crop |
| 8 x 12 in | 125 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 11 x 14 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 12 x 16 in | 85 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 12 x 18 in | 83 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 16 x 24 in | 62 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 18 x 24 in | 56 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 30 in | 50 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 24 x 36 in | 41 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 40 in | 34 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 48 in | 28 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 60 in | 25 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 1,022 x 1,500 px, srgb, sRGB IEC61966-2.1
- Tone
- Darks 33, lights 211 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 59.1
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