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 Alain Martineau
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| General Description : | Serie: 220, Type: P, Stamps in serie: 3 The stamps are issued in sheets of 15 stamps each. Croatian Post and Telecommunications sells a commemorative First Day Cover FDC and the First Day Sheet. Vlaho Bukovac is undoubtedly one of the founders of Croatian modern painting. He is, at the same time, one of the most popular Croatian painters generally, whose works, like the "Croatian Revival", painted for the curtain of the Croatina National Theatre in Zagreb, as well as "Gundulić’s Dream", have become an integral part of the collective national memory. The qualities that used to enrapture Bukovac’s contemporaries in his works, primarily in his portraits, those strange mixtures of the traditional academic manner and impressionism, have a completely different effect upon the present - day public: they seem too conventional and decorative in their expression. His "Pink Dream" is a female nude painted in pointilist manner, with a delicate colour scale and vibrating surfaces in which the subtle nuances of the girl’s complexion get drowned in the somewhat heavy chocolate - red draperies, thus creating an exceptionally refined atmosphere of sophisticated and subdued eroticism. |
| Face value | 3,60 Kuna |
| Catalog code (Michel) | HR 400 |
| Catalog code | Stamp Number HR 315 Yvert et Tellier HR 375 Stanley Gibbons HR 473 AFA number HR 474 Croatian post Inc. HR 222 |
| Series | Modern croatian painting |
| Stamp colour | multicolor |
| Stamp use | Commemorative stamp |
| Print run | 350,000 |
| Issue date | 07/11/1996 |
| Designer | Josip Biffel |
| Paper type | white 102g, gummed |
| Print technique | Multicoloured Offsetprint |
| Printed by | AKD - Hrvatski tiskarski zavod, Zagreb, Savska cesta 31 |
| Perforation | 14, comb |
| Height | 35.50 mm |
| Width | 48.28 mm |
| Catalog prices | No catalog prices set yet |
