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Nudes on Romanian Stamps |
Dedicated to the "women" of my youth
The stamps featured below marked a kind of revolution in the usually quite conservative Romanian philately. They appeared during a short period of a certain relaxation of the unique ruling party's grip over the Romanian population, permitting also for some freedom in the choice of stamp subjects. This was also the period of the worldwide blossom in the reproduction of the works of art on stamps, so that the commercial reasons had also an important influence on the decisions takers of the Romanian philately of that time.
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Anyway, for one or another reason, the Romanian Post took the philatelist by surprise, by issuing successively, during two years, two sets of a high quality nude stamps, accompanied by two souvenir sheets and by first day covers.
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The stamps were freely available at face in the state philatelic commerce, in important quantities, but disappeared quite quickly from the state shops (especially the sheet of the 1969 issue) due to a high demand on the internal and external markets. Today these stamps are obtainable without any difficulty.
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The artistic concept of the issuers was an interesting one. Each of both sets shows three Romanian and three foreign works of art, all found in the Romanian art museums. In each of groups there are shown works of classical masters and of modern ones, covering this way the tastes of a large number of art lovers and of stamp collectors.
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Representative of the classical art are the works of the artists Ressu or Tattarescu for the Romanian painters, and of Liberi, Bronzino or Delacroix for the foreign artists. The artists Tonitza and Pallady are the representative of the modern Romanian painting, and a work of Renoir was chosen to represent the foreign modern art. Interestingly enough, the classic Romanian painter Grigorescu is represented by a work that is strongly influenced by the modern French painters.
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An interesting stamp is that issued in 1969, value of 1.75L (Mi. 2769, Sc. 2091) and on the sheet (shown above, on the right hand, Mi. Bl. 70, Sc. 2094), and reproducing the painting "Diana and Endymion" by the Italian painter Pietro Liberi (1614-1687), and not by Marco Liberi, as written on the stamp and in some international stamps catalogues. This stamp is, in my opinion, the nicest stamp of the Romanian topical philately and one of the most outstanding in the world of the art stamps philately worldwide.
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Another interesting stamp was issued also in 1969, the value of 3L (Mi. 2760, Sc. 2092), representing the work "Three Graces" by the German painter Hans von Aachen. Some international catalogues attribute it to the Italian painter Allesandro Varotari. Please click here vor more information about this interesting and problematic stamp. For more information about the stamps and the work of art presented please above please point to them with the mouse index and read the text that appears in the popup window.
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| Published:
09/09/2001. Revised:
01/02/06. Copyright © 2001 - 2006 by Victor Manta, Switzerland. All rights reserved worldwide. |
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