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NUDE ART ON STAMPS: Édouard Manet

NUDE ART ON STAMPS: Édouard Manet

NUDE ART ON STAMPS: Édouard Manet Édouard Manet (1832-1883) was a French painter who played a pivotal role in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. His nude paintings, such as “Olympia” and “Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe,” are iconic...
NUDE ART ON STAMPS: Aristide Maillol

NUDE ART ON STAMPS: Aristide Maillol

NUDE ART ON STAMPS: Aristide Maillol Aristide Maillol (1861-1944) was a French sculptor, painter, and printmaker whose monumental statues of female nudes display a concern for mass and rigorous formal analysis. Today’s stamp from France is issued to celebrate...
NUDE ART ON STAMPS: Goya

NUDE ART ON STAMPS: Goya

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) was a Spanish painter. Goya was a portrait painter and court painter to the Spanish court, a historian and, in his unofficial work, a revolutionary and a man of vision. He has been considered both the last of the old...
NUDE ART ON STAMPS: Nikola Martinoski

NUDE ART ON STAMPS: Nikola Martinoski

Nikola Martinoski (1903-1973), sometimes spelled Martinovski, was a Macedonian Yugoslav painter of Aromanian ethnicity. He is considered a founder of modern Macedonian art. Todays stamp from former Yougoslavia shows Martinoskis beautiful painting: “Young Gipsy with a...