Cuba 1988 170 years of Alejandro School - paintings

From Stamps of the World
  • 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

Michel No. 3149, mint
Michel No. 3150, mint
Michel No. 3151, mint
Michel No. 3152, mint
Michel No. 3153, mint
Michel No. 3154, mint
Michel No. 3155, mint

postmarked

Michel No. 3149, postmarked
Michel No. 3150, postmarked
Michel No. 3151, postmarked with CTO
Michel No. 3152, postmarked with CTO
Michel No. 3153, poatmarked with CTO
Michel No. 3154, postmarked with CTO
Michel No. 3155, postmarked with CTO


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