Mat (Mother)
Mospoligraf, Iskra Revolyutsii typochromolithography, Moscow, 1926
$270
Print check at 18 x 24 in: 166 dpi, good. Trimmed 6.5% to the shape of the print.
Shipping to a US address: $25.90 for this piece, from the print room in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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An autotype sheet, 107.5 by 62 cm, published by Mezhrabpom-Rus in 1926 in an edition of 15,000, printed at the Iskra Revolyutsii chromolithography of Mospoligraf. Pudovkin's Mother is the film against which Soviet montage theory was tested and argued for a decade. This is one of the original release sheets — printed to be pasted up and destroyed, which is why so few survive. That this sheet is autotype rather than pure lithograph: it reproduces photographic tone, putting the film's own images on the wall rather than an artist's drawing of them. The photograph escaping the screen and going out into the street.
- Maker
- Mospoligraf, Iskra Revolyutsii typochromolithography, Moscow
- 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-00751
| Picture | 18 x 24 in |
|---|---|
| Outside size | 19.6 x 25.6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | 400 | Excellent | Trimmed 0.3% |
| 11 x 14 in | 285 | Excellent | Trimmed 2.1% |
| 12 x 16 in | 250 | Excellent | Trimmed 6.5% |
| 16 x 20 in | 200 | Excellent | Trimmed 0.3% |
| 18 x 24 in | 166 | Good | Trimmed 6.5% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 12 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 16 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 20 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 24 x 30 in | 133 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 30 x 40 in | 100 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 48 in | 83 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 60 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 3,210 x 4,000 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 3, lights 210 of 255; 0% clipped light, 1.6% clipped dark
- Colour
- 9.6% vivid
- Sharpness
- 53.28
- Notes
- Vivid colour: canvas or luster paper shows it best
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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