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Paris en cinq jours
Five days in Paris, drawn by a Russian exile who had never intended to stay.
What
A French affiche of 1926 for the comedy Paris en cinq jours, designed by Boris Bilinsky.
Why
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.
Notice
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.”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 11x17" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- Paris en cinq jours (1926), dir. Nicolas Rimsky
- Country / studio
- France
- Designer
- Boris Bilinsky
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- French affiche, 1926
- 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.
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