Description
- Issue Date: 27th August 1974
- Designed by: F. Bokros
- Printed by: State Printing Works, Budapest
- Print Process: Photogravure
- Perforations: 12½; 11¼ for the 10fo value and miniature sheet
- Stamp size: 44 x 57 mm or 57 x 44 mm; 10fo value 50 x 76 mm; miniature sheet 74 x 100 mm
- Print Run: 570,000 for the seven lower values; 371,906 for the 10fo value and miniature sheet
Paintings - Nudes
This 1974 issue from Hungary reproduces paintings of nude figures by Hungarian artists, including Károly Lotz, Károly Brocky, István Csók, Bertalan Székely, Erzsébet Korb and Pál Szinyei Merse.
The set belongs to Hungary’s art-themed commemorative issues of the 1970s, using works from the Hungarian painting tradition as stamp subjects. The theme is listed in catalogue sources as “Paintings of Nudes”. The current page shows seven individual values and a miniature sheet; catalogue sources also list a separate 10fo stamp featuring Lark by Pál Szinyei Merse.
Unused
Miniature Sheet
Catalogue numbers
| Value
|
Subject
|
Artist
|
Michel
|
Yvert
|
Scott
|
| 40f
|
Bathing Woman
|
Károly Lotz
|
2969
|
2380
|
2298
|
| 60f
|
Awakening
|
Károly Brocky
|
2970
|
2381
|
2299
|
| 1fo
|
Venus and Cupid
|
Károly Brocky
|
2971
|
2382
|
2300
|
| 1fo50
|
After the Bath
|
Károly Lotz
|
2972
|
2383
|
2301
|
| 2fo50
|
Resting Woman
|
István Csók
|
2973
|
2384
|
2302
|
| 4fo
|
After the Bath
|
Bertalan Székely
|
2974
|
2385
|
2303
|
| 5fo
|
Devotion
|
Erzsébet Korb
|
2975
|
2386
|
2304
|
| 10fo
|
Lark
|
Pál Szinyei Merse
|
2976
|
|
2305
|
| Miniature sheet
|
Lark
|
Pál Szinyei Merse
|
|
|
|
