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 Alain Martineau
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| General Description : | Born in Montreal in 1879, Émile Nelligan was the son of a French Canadian mother and an Irish father who worked for the Post Office. Nelligan took little interest in his schooling, but became fascinated with poetry. He was influenced, but not dominated, by the works of several poets from France and he attained a personal, rather melancholy style. Nelligan wrote most of his poetry between 1897 and 1899, the year he sank into a deep depression, never to recover. He spent the rest of his life in asylums and died in St-Jean-de-Dieu in 1941. His most famous work, a presentiment of his own psychological fate, is a poem called "Le vaisseau d'or" (The Golden Ship). Monique Charbonneau designed the woodcut illustration using the Japanese inking technique called ukiyo-e. |
| Face value | 17 Cents |
| Catalog code (Michel) | CA 728 |
| Catalog code (Scott) | CA 818 |
| Catalog code | Yvert et Tellier CA 705 Stanley Gibbons CA 941 |
| Series | Canadian artist-Writer |
| Stamp colour | multicolor |
| Stamp use | Commemorative stamp |
| Print run | 12,500,000 |
| Issue date | 03/05/1979 |
| Designer | Monique Charbonneau |
| Paper type | two fluorescent bands |
| Print technique | Offset lithography |
| Printed by | Canadian Bank Note Company |
| Perforation | 13.5 |
| Height | 30.00 mm |
| Width | 36.00 mm |
| Catalog prices | No catalog prices set yet |
