A vintage Russian art poster featuring stylized figures in geometric, expressionist composition with bold typography in Cyrillic, shown against a light wall.

K. Klementyeva – "Down with Tipping!" – 1925 – Official State Russian Museum Facsimile Edition – 58.5 × 87.8 cm / 23.0 × 34.6 in

€198,00
€198,00
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A vintage Russian art poster featuring stylized figures in geometric, expressionist composition with bold typography in Cyrillic, shown against a light wall.
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  • A large white sheet of paper with printed text in the lower right corner, photographed from above on a light wood floor.
  • A book cover photographed upside down on a white background, showing black Cyrillic text for 'Down with lipst! 1925' and publisher information including 'PALACE EDITIONS'.
  • A stylized art print depicting a man in a gray suit and checkered flat cap sitting on a chair, holding a newspaper, with bold geometric shapes in blue, yellow, and beige in the background.
  • A cubist-style artwork showing a reclining man in a suit, rendered with geometric shapes and blocks of cream, blue, yellow, red, gray, and black. The composition fills the frame, with no separate studio background visible.
  • An abstract art print featuring two stylized figures in a geometric, cubist-inspired composition. The upper figure is seated and wears a tan suit with black and white details, while the lower figure is shown in profile in a white shirt with red and blue accents.
  • A stylized abstract artwork showing a seated figure in a dark suit with one arm raised, alongside geometric shapes and a grid pattern in cream, navy, mustard yellow, and muted red.
  • A vintage Soviet propaganda poster print featuring stylized figures in suits and abstract geometric shapes, with large Cyrillic text at the top and bottom, photographed against a light wood background.
  • A close-up of a vintage-style poster or art print featuring abstract geometric shapes and a stylized figure in black, burgundy, cream, and yellow tones.
  • A vintage-style poster print featuring an abstract illustration of a seated figure in gray trousers and white shoes, with bold black, yellow, and terracotta geometric shapes on a tan background. The bottom includes large red and black letterforms and small Cyrillic text.
  • A close-up of an abstract art print featuring geometric shapes in terracotta red, black, and cream, alongside a stylized figure in brown, black, and white.
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K. Klementyeva – "Down with Tipping!" – 1925 – Official State Russian Museum Facsimile Edition – 58.5 × 87.8 cm / 23.0 × 34.6 in

K. Klementyeva – "Down with Tipping!" – 1925 – Official State Russian Museum Facsimile Edition – 58.5 × 87.8 cm / 23.0 × 34.6 in

€198,00
€198,00
✓ 100% Original — Certificate of Authenticity included

A rare and museum-authorised facsimile of one of the most socially pointed posters of the early Soviet avant-garde — Ksenia Aleksandrovna Klementyeva’s 1925 agitprop broadside “ДОЛОЙ ЧАЕВЫЕ!” (“Down with Tipping!”), commissioned by the Azerbaijan Branch of the Union of Public Catering Workers (Нарпит) and the Cultural Department of the Azerbaijani Council of Trade Unions (А.С.П.С.). Published in 2004 by Palace Editions / The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, and printed on premium archival paper to replicate the ink depth and texture of the 1925 master copy. The reverse bears the official printed historical cataloguing stamp and copyright metadata of the State Russian Museum.

The design operates through a devastating visual argument. The upper panel — headed “РАНЬШЕ…” (“Before…”) — shows service workers bowing in submissive posture before wealthy bourgeois clients, the body language of Tsarist-era class subservience rendered in flat, high-contrast Constructivist geometry. The lower panel — “ТЕПЕРЬ” (“Now”) — shows a proud, emancipated Soviet waiter standing tall, arms crossed, refusing a cash bribe with quiet authority. The message is structural, not decorative: the new Soviet worker does not accept gratuities because he is not a servant — he is a citizen. Klementyeva integrates bold Cyrillic block typography directly into the geometric framework, a hallmark of the Constructivist agitprop tradition in which text and image are inseparable components of a single visual argument. Commissioned for the regional workforce in Baku during the NEP era — a period of ideological tension between market pragmatism and revolutionary principle — the poster addressed a very real social friction: the persistence of tipping culture as a remnant of pre-revolutionary class relations. Klementyeva (1896–1984) was one of the few prominent female voices in Soviet graphic design of the 1920s, and this work stands as one of her most resolved and historically resonant compositions.

An extraordinary acquisition for curators of Russian Constructivism, early industrial graphics, labour history, or Soviet feminist art history.

Edition Details

This is not a vintage original — it is an authorised museum facsimile reproduction, published by the State Russian Museum.

Artist: Ksenia Klementyeva (К.А. Клементьева), 1896–1984
Original title: Долой чаевые! (“Down with Tipping!”)
Original design year: 1925
Original commissioner: Нарпит (Azerbaijan Branch, Union of Public Catering Workers) & А.С.П.С. (Cultural Dept., Azerbaijani Council of Trade Unions)
Facsimile publisher: Palace Editions / The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
Facsimile year: 2004
Authentication: Official State Russian Museum cataloguing stamp and copyright metadata on reverse
Style: Soviet Constructivism / Early Agitprop Graphic Design
Size: 58.5 × 87.8 cm (23 × 34.6″)
Medium: Multi-colour lithograph on premium archival paper

Condition

Overall: Excellent / Fine (Like New)

Wear: None. This is a clean museum facsimile copy free from tears, folds, heavy creasing, or handling marks.

Details: Colours are vivid and fully saturated. The reverse remains completely clean with pristine, legible museum metadata. Ready for immediate custom framing.

Please review the high-resolution photographs for a full and accurate representation. What you see is what you receive.

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