Hundertwasser Cuba

Hundertwasser Stamps
Cuba

Cuba 1967. Salon de Mayo, Havana. Please note the slight differences in design of these two stamps. Both are original, but of different print runs. A similar stamp as the one to the right is shown on the below first day cover.

Only the stamp top right on the above FDC is a Hundertwasser-painting. The artists' names are not mentioned on the stamps, but the artists are identified as:

Top left: Asger Jorn, Denmark
Top middle: René Magritte, Belgium
Top right: Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austria
Below left: Antoni Tapies, Spain
Below right: Marie-Hélène Vieira da Silva, France

The stamps on the FDC are part of an issuance related to the art exhibition "Salon de Mayo"
in Havana, Cuba, 1967, comprising the following international artists:

Wilfredo Lam, Cuba
Felix Labisse, Belgium
Rodriguez Mariano, Cuba
Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austria
Alan Davie, Scotland
Max Walter Svanberg, Norway
Antoni Tapies, Spain
Gustave Singier, France
Gudmundur Gudmundson ("Erro"), Iceland
Pablo Picasso, France
Max Ernst, Germany
Victor Vasarely, France
René Portocarrero, Cuba
René Magritte, Belgium
Roberto Matta, Chile
Serge Poliakoff, France (Cobra Artist)
Bram van Velde, Holland
Joan Miro, Spain
Asger Jorn, Denmark (Cobra Artist)
Pierre Alechinsky, France (Cobra Artist)
Marie-Hélène Vieira da Silva, France
Jean Messagier, France
Edouard Pignon, France
Anonymous (painted collectively by several painters)

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