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A man and a woman seem to float against a background of nested, concentric rings in this abstracted, vertical painting. The center of the rings is just above the center of the composition.

Political Drama

Robert Delaunay (French, 1885–1941)

Date
1914
Medium
oil and collage on cardboard
Size
35 × 26½ in (88.7 × 67.3 cm)
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1971.2.1. See the museum’s record
Credit
Gift of the Joseph H. Hazen Foundation, Inc.

Public domain image courtesy of the National Gallery of Art (Open Access, CC0).

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Print
18 × 24 in, filling the paper (trims 1.2 % of the picture)
Center
58 in (147 cm) above the stair line
Political Drama: an 18 × 24 in print hung beside a staircase, drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall
18 × 24 in portrait print (46 × 61 cm), centered 58 in above the stair line. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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Standard paper sizes that keep this painting’s proportions, the frames that fit them, and how sharp each one prints.

Paper Filling the paper Printed whole Frame Frame with a 2 in mat Frame with a 3 in mat Sharpness
5 × 7 in trims 5.9 % 5 × 6½ in 5 × 7 in ready-made 9 × 11 in custom 11 × 13 in custom 654 dpi, crisp up close
8 × 10 in trims 5.1 % 7½ × 10 in 8 × 10 in ready-made 12 × 14 in custom 14 × 16 in custom 445 dpi, crisp up close
11 × 14 in trims 3.4 % 10½ × 14 in 11 × 14 in ready-made 15 × 18 in custom 17 × 20 in custom 323 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in trims 1.2 % 12 × 15¾ in 12 × 16 in ready-made 16 × 20 in ready-made 18 × 22 in custom 286 dpi, crisp from a step back
16 × 20 in trims 5.1 % 15¼ × 20 in 16 × 20 in ready-made 20 × 24 in ready-made 22 × 26 in custom 222 dpi, crisp from a step back
18 × 24 in trims 1.2 % 18 × 23¾ in 18 × 24 in ready-made 22 × 28 in ready-made 24 × 30 in ready-made 190 dpi, crisp from a step back
30 × 40 in trims 1.2 % 30 × 39½ in 30 × 40 in ready-made 34 × 44 in custom 36 × 46 in custom 114 dpi, soft up close
36 × 48 in trims 1.2 % 36 × 47½ in 36 × 48 in ready-made 40 × 52 in custom 42 × 54 in custom 95 dpi, soft up close

Sharpness is worked out from the largest file the museum offers. Above 300 dpi a print holds up at arm’s length; 150 dpi is plenty for a picture seen from across a sofa.

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Free for any use, including commercial: this image is public domain (CC0).

Public domain image courtesy of the National Gallery of Art (Open Access, CC0). You may print, share, change and sell it without asking. Read what that means on our image license page, and how to get a good result in how to print a public-domain painting.

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