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Mint collection with album in very fine condition. Album dimensions 9 3/4" X 7 1/4". 49 stamps selected by Kenmore. Also a
sheet which shows the printing process. Only one stamp is missing the small cardboard descriptor - that of Delauney (the Millet descriptor
is included but not shown).
Here's a descriptive writeup from "artonstamps.org/frenchser.htm"....... The French Art Series (also known under the name Musée imaginaire
- Imaginary Museum) started in 1961 with a set of four stamps, reproducing the works of Braque, Matisse, Cezanne and R. de la Fresnaye. Using
a big format (36.85 x 48 mm) and characterized by an excellent typographic quality (printed for the first time in such a big format in TD6
= taille-douce six couleurs), this series gave the start of a new era in the domain of the reproduction of art on stamps. In over 35 year
s of existence, all areas were covered, from
cavern paintings in Lascaux (SG 1786) and Egyptian Art (SG 2111) to the contemporary artists, who created works to be reproduced on
the postage stamps...
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