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The Film Poster Exhibition, 1919
A poster announcing a show of posters.
What
A colour lithograph, 72 by 54 cm, for an exhibition of film posters at the Ars cinema in Moscow, 20 to 27 January 1919, issued by the Kinokomitet of the People's Commissariat of Education.
Why
Within months of taking over the cinema, the new state hung its film posters on the wall as art.
Notice
The artist signed as A. Usachev; nothing else is known of him.
“The poster looks at itself”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- Exhibition of film posters at the Ars cinema (1919)
- Country / studio
- Soviet Russia · Kinokomitet, Narkompros
- Designer
- A. Usachev
- Format
- Other
- Poster published
- Exhibition poster, Kinokomitet of Narkompros, colour lithograph, 1919
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (poster published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year, never the film’s. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-18.
