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Life Is a Moment, Art Is Forever
Pyotr Zhitkov's one-colour sheet for an Ermolieff film.
What
A single-colour lithograph, 108 by 71 cm, by Pyotr Zhitkov for the 1916 Ermolieff film directed by Czesław Sabiński.
Why
The title states the old case for art in five words, and the poster keeps to one ink.
Notice
One colour carries the whole design.
“A motto for a studio”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- Zhizn — mig, iskusstvo — vechno (1916), dir. Czesław Sabiński
- Country / studio
- Russian Empire · J. N. Ermolieff
- Designer
- Pyotr Zhitkov
- Printer / stone
- Russian Society of Printing and Publishing, Moscow
- Format
- Other
- Poster published
- Russian Empire film poster, single-colour lithograph, 1916
- 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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