Cuba 1988 170 years of Alejandro School - paintings
- Label : "Correos de Cuba"; 1977; commemorative stamps of the issue "170 years of the San Alejandro School in Havana"“;
(issue of 7 stamps)
Meant is the San-Alejandro-School ("Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes 'San Alejandro'") in Havana (Cuba).
Stamp datas
- Catalogue numbers : Michel: No. 3149-3155; Yvert & Tellier: 2816-2822; Scott: No. 2994-2999
- Color : multicolored
- Watermark : none
- Nominal value : 1 – 2 – 3 – 5 – 10 – 30 – 50 ₵ (Centavo(s))
- Postage validity : since 12 January 1988
- Designed by : different painters as creators of the depicted paintings
- Printed by : "Empresa de Correos, Prensa y Filatelia" (COPREFIL), Havana (probably)
- Print process : Offset printing on luminescent paper
- Perforation : Comb perforation, K 12¾ : 12½
- Stamp size (printed area of a single stamp without frame inscription left and right) :
- - horizontal format : 45.5 x 36.0 mm
- - vertical format : 36.0 x 45.5 mm
Commemorative stamps of the issue "170 years of the San Alejandro School in Havana"“;
(issue of 7 stamps)
Stamps
mint
postmarked
To the stamp motives:
- 1 ₵ (Centavo(s)) : detail of the painting "Landsape" by Domingo Ramos Enriquez (1894-1956) created in the so-called "Style of the turn-of-the-century" (Genre-painting (manínly landscapes and seascapes))
. 2 ₵ (Centavo(s)) : detail of the portrait-painting "Rodrigeuz Morey" by Eugenio Gonzales Olivera (1875-1842); created in the style of the Genre-painting (portraits) of the 20th century
- 3 ₵ (Centavo(s)) detail of the painting "Paisaje con malangas y cocoteros" (= "Landscape with cocoyam- and coconut-palms") by Valentin Sanz Carta (1849-1898); painting created in the style of the Realism with impressionistic tendencies; contemporary located at the "Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Cuba" in Havana (Cuba)
- 5 ₵ (Centavo(s)) : detail of the painting "Carretas" (= "carts") by Eduardo Morales (1838-1938); painting created in 1912 in the style of the Realism; contemporary located at the "Museo Nacional de Bellas Arts de Cuba", Havana (Cuba)
- 10 ₵ (Centavo(s)) : detail of the painting "Retrato de Elena Herrera (de Guma)" by Armndo Menocal (1863-1942); painting created in 1904 in the style of the Genre-painting (portraits); contemporary located at the "Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Cuba", Havana (Cuba)
- 30 ₵ (Centavo(s)) : detail of the painting "El Capto de Dejanira por el centauro Neso" (= "The abduction of the nymph Dejanira by the centaur Neso") by Miguel Melero (1836-1907); painting created before 1878 in the style of the Neo-Classicism
- 50 ₵ (Centavo(s)) : detail of the painting "la Echadora de cartas" by Leopoldo Romanach (1862-1951) ("La echadora de cartas" = "The (female) fortune-teller"); painting created in the style of the Realism with impressionistic tendencies