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 Bart Perdieus
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| General Description : | COBRA (or CoBrA) was a European avant-garde movement active from 1948 to 1951. The name was coined in 1948 by Christian Dotremont from the initials of the members' home cities: Copenhagen (Co), Brussels (Br), Amsterdam (A). COBRA was formed by Karel Appel, Constant, Corneille, Christian Dotremont, Asger Jorn, and Joseph Noiret on 8 November 1948 in the Café Notre-Dame, Paris,[1] with the signing of a manifesto, "La Cause Était Entendue" ("The Case Was Settled"), drawn up by Dotremont. Formed with a unifying doctrine of complete freedom of colour and form, as well as antipathy towards Surrealism, the artists also shared an interest in Marxism as well as modernism. Their working method was based on spontaneity and experiment, and they drew their inspiration in particular from children’s drawings, from primitive art forms and from the work of Paul Klee and Joan Miró. Coming together as an amalgamation of the Dutch group Reflex, the Danish group Høst and the Belgian Revolutionary Surrealist Group, the group only lasted a few years but managed to achieve a number of objectives in that time: the periodical Cobra, a series of collaborations between various members called Peintures-Mot and two large-scale exhibitions. The first of these was held at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, November 1949, the other at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Liège in 1951. |
| Face value | 1,16 Euro |
| Catalog code (Michel) | BE BL114 |
| Catalog code (Scott) | BE 2168 |
| Catalog code | Yvert et Tellier BE BF116 Stanley Gibbons BE MS4024 Belgium BE BL135 WADP Numbering System - WNS BE095MS.06 Unificato BE BF127 |
| Stamp colour | multicolour |
| Stamp use | Souvenir Sheet |
| Issue date | 17/11/2006 |
| Designer | Myriam Voz / Thierry Martin |
| Print technique | photogravure |
| Perforation | 11 1/2 |
| Height | 90.00 mm |
| Width | 125.00 mm |
| Catalog prices | No catalog prices set yet |
