Equatorial Guinea 1973 Nude paintings by European painters
- Label : "Postal and Telecommunications Services of Equatorial Guinea" (GECOTEL); 1973; commemorative stamps to the issue to "Nude paintings by European Painters";
(issue of 7 stamps inclusively 2 airmail stamps, + 1 semi-postal block à 1 stamp)
Stamp datas:
- Catalogue number : Michel: 267-273; Yvert & Tellier: No. 35-A – 35-E and airmails: PA20-A + PA20-B; Scott: No. 73-78 and airmails: 73-79 + 73-80
- Color : multicolored
- Watermark : none
- Nominal values : 1 – 2 – 3 – 5 – 8 – 15 – 50 – 200+25 (Peseta)
- Postage validity : since 29 June 1973
- Designed by :
- - different artists as creators of the depicted artworks
- Printed by : "Fábrica National de Moneda y Timbre" (F.N.M.T.), Madrid (spain) (probably)
- Print process : Offset printing on luminescent paper
- Perforation : Comb perforation, K 13¼
- Stamp size (printed area of a single stamp without the colored frame) :
Commemorative stamps to the issue to "Nude paintings by European Painters";
(issue of 7 stamps inclusively 2 airmail stamps, + 1 semi-postal block à 1 stamp)
Contents
Stamps
15 and 50 Pesetas = airmail
Mint
Postmarked
Block
semi-postal
To the stamp motives:
- 1 Guineanas PTA (Guinea Peseta) : detail of the painting "Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time" from Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1572) (German titles of this painting: "Allegorie der Liebe" or "Venus küsst Amor, Cupido, Wahnsinn und Zeit" or "Die Wahrheit wird enthüllt durch die Zeit" according to one of the original titles "La Verità svelata dal tempo"); This painting was created before 1550 in the style of the Italian Mannerism and was a present of "Cosimo I de Medici" for the King François I of France in the 1550s.; This painting is contemporary located at the "National Gallery", London (United Kingdom)
- 2 Guineanas PTAS (Guinea Pesetas) : detail of the painting "The Death of Cleopatra" by Guido Cagnacci (1601-1663); this painting (it gives still an other of the same artist under the same title) was created after 1659 in the style of the Italian Baroque and is contemporary located at the "Kunsthistorisches Museum", Vienna (Austria).
- 3 Guineanas PTAS (Guinea Pesetas) : detail of the painting "Diana leaving her bath" or "Diana after the bath" by François Boucher (1703-1770); created in 1742 in the style of the French Roccoco; contemporary located at the "Musée du Louvre", Paris (France)
- 5 Guineanas PTAS (Guinea Pesetas) : detail of the painting "The Toilette de Esther" or "Esther Preparing to be Presented to King Ahasuerus" (ruler of Persia) (scene according a story in the Bible (Old testament)) by Théodore Chasseriau (1819-1856); created in 1841 in the style of the Exotism (Orientalism with romantic elements); contemporary located at the "Musée du Louvre", Paris (France)
- 8 Guineanas PTAS (Guinea Pesetas) : detail of the painting "The female nude in front of green hanging" by André Derain (1880-1954); painting created in 1923; contemporary in private possession
- 15 Guineanas PTAS (Guinea Pesetas, airmail stamp) : detail of the painting "Seated nude" (German title: "Sitzender weiblicher Akt") by Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920); painted as woman is "Beatrice Hastings" (the then artist‘s loves); created in 1916 in the style of the Italian Expressionism; contemporary located at the "Courtauld Gallery", London (United Kingdom)
- 50 Guineanas PTAS (Guinea Pesetas, airmail stamp) : detail of the painting "Blonde Woman with Bare Breasts" by Èdouard Manet (1832-1883); painted is a woman with name "Marguerite", however no blonde rather a brunette woman; painting created in 1875 in the style of the French Impressionism; contemporary located at the "Musée d‘Orsay", Paris (France)
- 200+25 Guineana Pesetas (Guinea Pesetas, block) : detail of the painting "Woman Stroking a Parrot" (French original title "Femme caressant un perroquet") by Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863); paining created in 1827 in the style of the Romanticism; contemporary located at the "Musée des Beaux Arts de Lyon", Lyon (France)
