Framed Facsimile – Ksenia Klementyeva – “Down with Tipping!” – 1925 – Official State Russian Museum Edition

A museum-quality framed reproduction of one of the most socially pointed posters of the early Soviet avant-garde — Ksenia Klementyeva’s 1925 agitprop broadside “ДОЛОЙ ЧАЕВЫЕ!” (“Down with Tipping!”), an authorised facsimile published in 2004 by Palace Editions / The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg. Presented in your choice of frame colour, ready to hang.

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. 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, the poster addressed the persistence of tipping culture as a remnant of pre-revolutionary class relations. Ksenia 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.

Publication Details
Artist: Ksenia Klementyeva (К.А. Клементьева), 1896–1984
Original title: Долой чаевые! (“Down with Tipping!”)
Original design year: 1925
Facsimile publisher: Palace Editions / The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
Facsimile year: 2004
Style: Soviet Constructivism / Early Agitprop Graphic Design

Make a statement in any room with this framed poster, printed on thick matte paper. The frame made from wood from renewable forests adds an extra touch of class.

• Original poster size: 58.5 × 87.8 cm (23 × 34.6″)
• Frame size: 24 × 36 in (61 × 91 cm) — the closest standard size to the original
• Frame colour: Black / Red Oak / White (select above)
• Paper thickness: 10.3 mil (0.26 mm) · 189 g/m²
• Frame depth: 0.75″ (1.9 cm) · Ayous wood from renewable forests
• Lightweight
• Acrylite front protector
• Hanging hardware included
• Blank product components in the US sourced from Japan and the US
• Blank product components in the EU sourced from Japan and Latvia

How to hang: place the mounting hook at the centre-top of the frame.