USSR 1974 Paintings by I.K.Aivazovsky

• Label : "Ministry of Communications of the USSR"; 1974; commemorative stamps of the issue "Marine paintings by I.K.Aivazovsky";
  

(issue of 6 stamps)

Meant is the Russian painter Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (1817-1900) (Russian Romanticism with realistic tendencies and Historism).

Stamp datas:

• Catalogue numbers : Michel: No. 4219-4224; Yvert & Tellier: 4022-4027; Scott: No. 4178-4183; AFA: No. 4176-4181
• Color : multicolored
• Watermark : none
• Nominal values : 2 – 4 – 6 – 10 – 12 – 16 K (Kopeks)
• Postage validity : since 30 March 1974
• Designed by : Nikolai Cherkasov
• Printed by : "Goznak State Printing House", Moscow (Russia)
• Print process : Offset printing on luminescent paper
• Perforation :

- Comb perforation, K 12½ : 11¾

- Comb perforation, K 12½ : 12 (other source)

• Print runs :

- 2 K (Kopeks) : 7,400,000 in sheets à 20 stamps

- 4 K (Kopeks) : 7,300,000 in sheets à 20 stamps

- 6 K (Kopeks) : 6,500,000 in sheets à 20 stamps

- 10 K (Kopeks) : 6,200,000 in sheets à 20 stamps

- 12 K (Kopeks) : 5,700,000 in sheets à 20 stamps

- 16 K (Kopeks) : 5,100,000 in sheets à 20 stamps

• Stamp size :

- horizontal formats (printed area of a single stamp without colored underpress) : 47.5 x 33.0 mm

- vertical formats (printed area of a single stamp without colored underpress) : 33.0 x 47.5 mm

Commemorative stamps of the issue "Marine paintings by I.K.Aivazovsky";
(issue of 6 stamps)

Stamps

Mint

Michel No. 4219, mint	Michel No. 4220, mint	Michel No. 4221, mint
Michel No. 4222, mint	Michel No. 4223, mint	Michel No. 4224, mint

Postmarked

Michel No. 4219, postmarked with CTO	Michel No. 4220, postmarked with CTO	Michel No. 4221, postmarked with CTO
Michel No. 4222, postmarked with CTO	Michel No. 4223, postmarked with CTO	Michel No. 4224, postmarked with CTO

To the stamp motives:
All stamps show paintings by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivasovsky (1817-1900).
- 2 K (Kopeks) : painting "Odessa at Moonlight"; created in 1855 in the style of the Romanticism; contemporary located at the "Regional Art Museum", Kaluga (Russia)
- 4 K (Kopeks) : detail of the painting "Sea battle at Chesma at night" (meant is Çeşme, contemporary Turkey). This painting shall illustrate the Sea battle at 05 July – 07 July 1770 between a Osman flot and a Russian flot during the 5th Turkish-Russian War.; painting created in 1848 in the style of the Historism; contemporary located at the "Aivazovsky National Art Gallery", Feodosia (Crimea) (Ukraine,/Russia)
- 6 K (Kopeks) : painting "Saint George Monastery" (at the Cape Fiolient (nar Sevastopol)); painting created in 1848 in the style of the Romanticism; contemporary located at the "Aivazovsky National Art Gallery", Feodosia (Crimea) (Ukraine,/Russia)
- 10 K (Kopeks) : painting "Shipping in Stormy Sea"; painting created in 1868 in the style of the Romanticism; contemporary located at the "Tretyakov Gallery", Moscow (Russia)
- 12 K (Kopeks) : painting "Rainbow"; created in 1873 in the style of the Romanticism; contemporary located at the "Tretyakov-Gallery", Moscow (Russia) - 16 K (Kopeks) : detal of the painting "Shipwreck"; created in 1876 in the style of the Romanticism; contemporary located at the „Aivazovsky National Gallery“, Feodosia (Crimea, (Ukraine/Russia)