Impressionist Art Cards
Details of 13 paintings by 8 different Impressionist artists on elongated cards.
To arrive at a vertical format for the Impressionist paintings on these elongated cards, all have been cropped to a greater or lesser extent. The eight artists whose work is represented are Caillebotte, Cassatt, Degas, Manet, Monet, Morisot, Pissarro and Renoir. Each of the 13 paintings is repeated on the same card in each suit. Below each are the title (in English) and the name of the artist. Three tubes of paint can be found on the Jokers. The back designs feature two details from Water Lilies paintings by Monet, each within a gold picture frame. The accompanying leaflet has further details about each work (date, current location, etc.), also showing what they look like full-size. See the box►
Above: Impressionist Art Cards published by Birdcage Books, Palo Alto, CA, USA, 2002. Printed in China. 2 x 52 cards + 2 (identical) Jokers in drop-lid box. Size: 63 x 101 mm.
The Joker is probably the most fun part of this pack - maybe one with which the Joker collectors are less familiar.
The Leaflet
By Roddy Somerville
France • Member since May 31, 2022
Roddy started collecting stamps on his 8th birthday. In 1977 he joined the newly formed playing-card department at Stanley Gibbons in London before setting up his own business in Edinburgh four years later. His collecting interests include playing cards, postcards, stamps (especially playing cards on stamps) and sugar wrappers. He is a Past President of the Scottish Philatelic Society, a former Chairman of the IPCS, a Past Master of the Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards and Curator of the WCMPC’s collection of playing cards. He lives near Toulouse in France.
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