Paris en cinq jours
Boris Bilinsky, 1926
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 8 x 10 in, 125 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyA French affiche of 1926 for the comedy Paris en cinq jours, designed by Boris Bilinsky. Bilinsky arrived in Paris with the Albatros émigrés and became the most sought-after film poster designer in France, later drawing the celebrated French Metropolis sheets. His work marks the point where the affiche stopped illustrating scenes and started composing graphic design. Flat colour shapes doing the work that drawn detail did twenty years earlier — the whole poster is built from silhouette and typography. A city seen by someone who arrived as a refugee and stayed to draw it.
- Maker
- Boris Bilinsky
- 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-00806
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 | 125 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 8 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 10% crop |
| 11 x 14 in | 90 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 12 x 16 in | 83 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 12 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 10% crop |
| 16 x 20 in | 62 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 10% crop |
| 18 x 24 in | 55 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 10% crop |
| 24 x 30 in | 41 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 10% crop |
| 30 x 40 in | 33 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 48 in | 27 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 60 in | Wrong shape: a 10% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 1,000 x 1,346 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 4, lights 188 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0.7% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 19.97
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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