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Turandot — Leopoldo Metlicovitz, 1926

Name: Turandot — Leopoldo Metlicovitz, 1926
Brand: The Poster Atlas
SKU: PA-00890

Leopoldo Metlicovitz, 1926

The Poster AtlasPA-00890Tear sheet

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No print size passed the check for this piece: at 8 x 10 in, Wrong shape: a 12% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.

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Metlicovitz’s poster for Puccini’s posthumously premiered Turandot, published by Ricordi. The same house, the same designer’s hand, bookending the wing’s Puccini story a generation after Madama Butterfly. A colder, more geometric palette than the earlier Ricordi posters — opera advertising catching up to the 1920s. The last opera, announced by the oldest house.

Maker: Leopoldo Metlicovitz
Date: 1926
Medium of the original: Theater poster
Original held by: Wikimedia Commons
Credit: Wikimedia Commons · via Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Cleared for print
Catalogue number: PA-00890

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Sizes withheld
Size	Why
8 x 10 in	Wrong shape: a 12% crop
8 x 12 in	83 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
11 x 14 in	Wrong shape: a 10% crop
12 x 16 in	58 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
12 x 18 in	55 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
16 x 20 in	Wrong shape: a 12% crop
16 x 24 in	41 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
18 x 24 in	39 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
20 x 30 in	33 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
24 x 30 in	Wrong shape: a 12% crop
24 x 36 in	27 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
30 x 40 in	23 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
36 x 48 in	19 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
40 x 60 in	16 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged