Nudes On Stamps And Other Philately

This Monaco 2019 stamp features painting Bather Arranging Her Hair by French Impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919).

TNJed, your Aland Islands souvenir sheet shows a sculpture called "People of the Sea" (1971) by sculptor Matti Haupt. It is in Mariehamn. The reflective piece is a foil hologram. Finland has used these on some of their stamps beginning in 1994. Information is from Facit's Special catalog (Scandinavia).

Here is Germany's July 20, 1938 semi-postal issue (Mi #671) for the 5th race for the Brown Ribbon in Munich-Riem. The goddess of victory is shown holding the victor's wreath.

Greaden and Bookbob, thanks for the info on my stamps!

"Nude" by Gheorghe Tattarescu, my favorite from a series of nude art stamps issued by Romania in 1969.

Yugoslavia 1969, mint mini sheet, depicting artwork from Nikola Martinoski, contemporary Macedonian painter.

Male nudes.
Part study (cropped) by the late Anne Mette Heindorff (Denmark)

Hungary 1974
Sc#2298 40 forint
"Bathing Woman" Karoly Lotz


Yugoslavia 1969
Sc#997 1.5 dinar.
From a set "Paintings of nudes"
"Woman combing her hair" Marin Tartaglia.

This Austria 2008 stamp depicts a painting by contemporary Austrian artist Dina Larot (1942-) known for her landscapes and female nudes.

This stamp issued by Liechtenstein in 2005 depicts painting Toilette der Venus by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradition.

Here is the only US regular issue that I know of that would fit in this topic, the 2-cent 1901 Pan-American issue, SC295. There are some Newspaper stamps that would fit too.

How many of you were too interested in looking for vignette shifts on the train to see them? I mean two nude women!





Dan

US PR125 $100 newspaper stamp:

Has there been any systematic comparison between male and female nudes on stamps? Nudes as topical fodder are generally female, but allegorical figures and natives seem evenly split. Athletes and artisans lean towards male figures.

Danstamps I did a double take when I saw your post, thinking it was surely uploaded to the wrong thread....

No nudes on the stamps themselves, but when I saw this FDC, I had to buy it.

TNJed,




Yes, the nudes are pretty obscure! That's probably why they made it onto a US stamp. No one noticed.

Dan