Roses in Painting

Romfilatelia proposes to collectors a new postage stamps issue dedicated to this noble flower, entitled Roses in paiting.

The stamp with the face value of lei 1.00 illustrates the painting Trandafiri (Roses), made by Nicolae Grigorescu.

Nicolae Grigorescu (1838 - 1907) is considered to be the great master of the Romanian painting, who combined the realism of Barbizon School and the impressionism in his paintings.

As of 1861, together with Auguste Renoir, he frequented the workshop of Sébastien Cornu of Paris. Within a short period of time, he joined the Barbizon School where he would complete his artistic education.

In 1873, he started paying study visits in Rome, Naples, Pompeii, then in Greece and Austria, at Vienna. In the paintings made during these trips we may notice the strong influence of the Barbizon School.

After 1890, the painter settled down in Romania, where most of his paintings focused on rustic topics, peasant portraits, carts with oxen and Romanian landscapes.

On the stamp with the face value of lei 3.60 is reproduced the painting Trandafiri (Roses), by Theodor Aman (1831 - 1891).

After having made his first studies in Bucharest at “Saint Sava” College, he left for Paris and worked in the workshops of Michel Martin Drolling and François Edouard Picot. In 1858, he returned to Romania and contributed to the reorganization of the Romanian artistic education. In 1864, he supported the foundation of the first Fine Arts Schools in Bucharest and Iasi.

His paintings representing historical scenes, landscapes, portraits or still natures depict the stylistic talent of a painter of European value. He is also considered to be one of the first Romanian engravers who used the aqua-forte technique.

The stamp with the face value of lei 4.50 presents the painting Trandafiri (Roses), made by Stefan Luchian (1868 - 1916).

Born in 1868, Stefan Luchian enrolled to the painting class of the National School of Fine Arts of Bucharest, in 1885, a school which he graduated from four years later, obtaining the bronze medal for Cap de expresie (Head expression) and Studiu dupa natura (Nature study).

Afterwards, he studied inMunich, at the Fine Arts Academy, and then in Paris at Julien Academy.

In 1896, he returned to Bucharest where he would be the initiator of the Independent Artists’ Exhibition next to Alexandru Bogdan-Pitesti. In 1900 he is present in Paris, at the World Exhibition, exhibiting two pastels.

Due to an incurable disease, from 1909 until his death (1916), he would be tied to his armchair.

His paintings render the splendor of the Romanian landscapes made with an unmatched mastery, thus demonstrating his infinite passion for the nature.

The stamp with the face value of lei 14.50 illustrates the painting Trandafirii (The Roses), by Ion Andreescu (1850 - 1882).

Ion Andreescu was born in 1850 in Bucharest and he attended the courses of the Fine Arts School as of 1869. In 1878 he left for Paris, at Julien Academy, but he returned to Buzauas a secondary school teacher.

He died in 1882, at the age of 32, leaving us wonderful sceneries, pastels and still natures made inFrance, as well as in Romania.

The philatelic album is created into a limited run printing of 350 pcs. and is equipped with the block of the issue having graphic elements in gold foiling and a “first day” cover cancelled with the “first day” postmark clearly imprinted in gold foiling. Both products are numbered in black from 001 to 350.