Nudes On Stamps And Other Philately

Bathing Woman (1922) by Théo van Rysselberghe (1862-1926)
Belgium 2013

These two French EUROPA/CEPT stamps (Sc #s 1399-1400) depicting bronze nude sculptures were issued on April 20, 1974. The .50 fr stamp features Auguste Rodin's (1840-1917) L'Age d'Airain/The Age of Bronze (1876), and the .90 fr value shows Aristide Maillol's (!861-1944) L'Air/Air (1938).

On June 5, 1972 Sweden issued a set of two stamps to commemorate the UN Environment Conservation Conference held in Stockholm from June 5-16, 1972. The 85 ore value (Facit #776) of this set depicts Spring (1939), a carved, wooden relief folk art piece by Bror Hjorth.

Here is Switzerland's September 20, 2001, 180 centimes stamp (Sc #1106) commemorating the centenary of the death of Swiss Symbolist painter Arnold Boecklin (1827-1901). Stamp depicts Boecklin's oil painting The Birth of Venus (1869, Hessian State Museum, Darmstadt).

Monaco
Nude in Art
July 19, 2021
Painting Hercule et le taureau de crètois in the Prince's Palace

Latvia
Art
March 18, 2916
Kardinašana by Janis Rozentals (1866-1916)

Croatia 1996 Modern Paintings
Pink Dream (1916) by Vlaho Bukovac (1855-1922)

Bosnia and Herzegovina (Croatia)
Milivoj Uzelac
July 23, 2017
Painting by Milivoj Uzelac (1897-1977)

On October 27, 1980 Japan issued a two-value set as the 8th series of its 'Modern Japanese Art' stamps. This stamp from the set shows Morie Ogiwara's (1879-1910) sculpture Woman (1910).

This September 15, 1973 4.50 franc stamp (Sc #848) of Belgium commemorates "Year of the Spa". It depicts a fresco at the spa in Ostend.

On August 8, 1990 Sweden issued a one pane booklet of six different 2.90 krona designs commemorating the birth anniversaries of two Swedish men who were poets and songwriters. One (Facit #1640) of the three stamps for Carl Michael Bellman (1740-1795) depicts an illustration showing a nude couple. The image on the stamp alludes to Bellman's poem Fredman's Epistles.

Here is Sweden's alternating pair of coil stamps (Facit #s 1654-5) commemorating the birth centenary of authoress Moa Martinson (1890-1964). One of the stamps (#1655) shows an illustration from Martinson's 1933 novel Women and Apple Trees.

I never realised just how many nude images there was on stamps, however, here is one that has been missed.

It comes from New Zealand and was issued on the 18th of November 1932, a health charity stamp featuring Hygeia the Greek goddess of health, cleanliness and sanitation. >

WM

On April 28, 1981 Sweden issued a two-value set of folklore-themed EUROPA coil stamps. The 2 krona value (Facit #1159) of the set features a "Lady of the Woods".

From wikipedia, "The Skogsra, Skogstrun, Skogsnymfen, Randan or Huldran is a mythical female creature of the forest in Swedish folklore. It appears in the form of a small, beautiful woman with a seemingly friendly temperament. She appears like a woman from the front but seen from behind she often has a hollow back and a tail."

The Swedish girl looks like the inspiration for the star bucks logo!