Carte-Maximum for Centennial of Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, famous Russian & Soviet avant-garde artist. Commemorative postal stamp is canceled with 1st Day stamp, 1978.
The size is continental standard 6" x 4", published by the Ministry of Communications of the USSR, circulation 50,000, quite small by Soviet standards. The special-edition commemorative stamp is canceled with the First Day cancel issued by the Moscow Post Office and dated 16 August 1978. The name of the artist, K. Petrov-Vodkin, is printed in the lower left-hand corner on the verso. The artwork presents his 1920 painting 1918 in Petrograd, aka The Petrograd Madonna. The painting is exhibited in the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.
In excellent, outstandi
The size is continental standard 6" x 4", published by the Ministry of Communications of the USSR, circulation 50,000, quite small by Soviet standards. The special-edition commemorative stamp is canceled with the First Day cancel issued by the Moscow Post Office and dated 16 August 1978. The name of the artist, K. Petrov-Vodkin, is printed in the lower left-hand corner on the verso. The artwork presents his 1920 painting 1918 in Petrograd, aka The Petrograd Madonna. The painting is exhibited in the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.
In excellent, outstanding condition, showing just a tiny bit of storage wear to the verso.
Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin (Кузьма Сергеевич Петров-Водкин, 1878 - 1939) was a renowned Russian and Soviet painter. He painted in the style of avant-garde but the "revolutionary" content of many of his works earned him recognition and high praise of the Soviet ideologues despite avant-garde being a far step away from Socialist Realism, the official style of Soviet art.
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