Denmark Postal Administration will release, on November 10, a set with works of members of the COBRA group which contains: DKK 4.75 Asger Jorn; DKK 5.50 Else Alfelt; DKK 7.00 Pierre Alechinsky and DKK 8.00 Egill Jacobsen.COBRA is the name of an international group of artists founded in Paris in 1948. Its founding members included the Danish painter Asger Jorn, the Dutch painter Constant and the Belgian poet Christian Dotremont. The aim of COBRA was to create a basis for co-operation between painters and writers from Denmark, Belgium and the Netherlands. The acronym "COBRA" was formed from the first letters of Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam.After a year, the COBRA movement expanded and came to encompass experimental artists from many different countries. More than 50 visual artists and writers from around ten countries were associated with the movement before it was finally dissolved in 1951. The four stamps feature contemporary works by the COBRA painters. The two stamps with works by Asger Jorn and Pierre Alechinsky are a joint issue with the Belgian postal service.
The COBRA movement was loosely organised and did not strive to achieve a common style. Nonetheless, the community was given a high priority, particularly in the so-called "word-paintings", which were created jointly by poets and painters. Visually, COBRA was characterised by a spontaneous abstract style. The COBRA painters emphasised spontaneous expression, and as a result their works are characterised by immediacy and are full of energy. The artists found inspiration in children's drawings, folk art and Nordic mythology.
It is not the first time that Post Danmark has featured works by the COBRA painters on its stamps. A detail from Carl-Henning Pedersen's glass mosaic in Ribe Cathedral was displayed on a stamp in 1987, and in the same year, a stamp was issued showing a work by Ejler Bille. Works by Carl-Henning Pedersen and Ejler Bille were also included in the "Stamp Art" series in 1998. Finally, the COBRA painter Henry Heerup created a number of Danish stamps, such as the 1977 charity stamp issued for the benefit of the LEV association for the mentally handicapped.
Technical details - Date of issue: 10/Nov/2006
- Printing process: offset
- Stamp size: 28.84 x 39.52 mm. and 39.52 x 28.84 mm.
- Sheets: 40
Not less than 70 copies of 10 centimes of the "Bordeaux" issue, printed while Paris was besieged, composed the franking of this letter to Genoa in 1871. A block of 38, which is the largest known multiple for this French issue, is cancelled with the large numeral "2387" used in Monaco. This document is a major rarity of the French as well as the Monegasque postal history.
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