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Neft (Oil)
A documentary about extraction, sold with the same energy as any melodrama.
What
A chromolithographed one-sheet, 107 by 70 cm, published by Sovkino in Moscow in 1927 in an edition of 8,000 — a notably small run.
Why
Alexander Naumov died in 1928, aged twenty-nine, having produced a body of poster work that stands with the best of the montage school. That a documentary about oil received a designed sheet at all says a great deal about how seriously Soviet non-fiction cinema was promoted.
Notice
The economy of it — a short print run meant fewer colours could be justified, and the design does more with less because of it.
“Industry given the graphics of desire.”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- Oil (1927)
- Country / studio
- USSR · Sovkino
- Designer
- Alexander Naumov
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- Soviet lithographed film poster, 1927
- 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.
In the room
Where it would hang
The reproduction, framed and lit, in rooms built for looking. A rendering — your walls, your frame.
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Two one-sheets, hung as a pair — a double feature for your wall, at a pairing price of $270.00 for the two. Build one from any two one-sheets in the gallery.
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