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FRANCE LIBRE - MILITARY AIRSHIP 1943 - SHIP "LE RICHELIEU". (*) The 2 Senegal stamps of 1938, woman carrying basket, 1 F brown-red & 1 F 75 blue with the framed overprint affixed in New - York in 1943 by the ship's postal agency: "PAR AVION Bâtiment de Ligne RICHELIEU" - Very rare Dallay / Maury stamps numbers 10 & 11 -. mint luxury ** signed Calvès - ( * ) - this huge 35,000-ton ship set sail from Brest in June 1940. She reached French West Africa and Dakar, and, loyal to the Mal Pétain government, fought against British forces. Following the arrival of the Allies in North Africa in 1942, the Richelieu changed sides and joined the Free French Forces, becoming part of the Royal Navy. In 1943, she left Africa for the United States. In 1945, she took part in the Liberation of Singapore. Back in France, moored in Brest, then Toulon, she was withdrawn from service in 1967.

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FRANCE LIBRE - MILITARY AIRSHIP 1943 - SHIP "LE RICHELIEU". (*) The 2 Senegal stamps of 1938, woman carrying basket, 1 F brown-red & 1 F 75 blue with the framed overprint affixed in New - York in 1943 by the ship's postal agency: "PAR AVION Bâtiment de Ligne RICHELIEU" - Very rare Dallay / Maury stamps numbers 10 & 11 -. mint luxury ** signed Calvès - ( * ) - this huge 35,000-ton ship set sail from Brest in June 1940. She reached French West Africa and Dakar, and, loyal to the Mal Pétain government, fought against British forces. Following the arrival of the Allies in North Africa in 1942, the Richelieu changed sides and joined the Free French Forces, becoming part of the Royal Navy. In 1943, she left Africa for the United States. In 1945, she took part in the Liberation of Singapore. Back in France, moored in Brest, then Toulon, she was withdrawn from service in 1967.

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Estimate 600 - 800 EUR

Starting price 500 EUR

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FRANCE 1976 - EPREUVE de LUXE - 30e ANNIVERSAIRE DE L' ASSOCIATION des Français LIBRES - Cross of Lorraine. N° 1885 - Imperforated stamp printed in the center of an individual sheet 100 x 130 mm, signature "imprimerie des timbres poste de France", limited edition of 250. Proof reserved for high-ranking political and postal personalities.

Lot 344

Starting price 60 EUR

FRANCE LIBERATION - RARE TRAVEL LETTER MARSEILLE SAINT-FERREOL. Letter to Roquevaire - franked at 1 F 50 with pair PETAIN 60c violet de Hourriez (509) + 30c rouge Mercure "Postes" n° 547 - the 3 stamps with R..F. overprint at an angle and Croix de Lorraine, mention "Gouvernement Provisoire" at an angle on the faces. + Provisional commemorative flame "MARSEILLE LIBRE 23 AOUT 1944" - Date stamp Marseille St Ferréol 8 septembre 1944. RARE LETTRE, overprinted stamps, print run 500 copies only according to Mayer. DALLAY: the "Gouvernement Provisoire" overprint was applied on August 30, 1944 by the controller of the Marseille St Ferréol office without reference to higher authorities, but these stamps franked mail".

Lot 30

Estim. 2 400 - 3 000 EUR

ALBERT RÀFOLS CASAMADA (Barcelona, 1923-2009). Untitled. 2002. Mixed media and wax on paper. Signed and dated. Measurements: 36 x 37 cm; 68,5 x 70 cm (frame). Painter, pedagogue, writer and graphic artist, Ràfols Casamada enjoys today great international prestige. He began in the world of drawing and painting with his father, Albert Ràfols Cullerés. In 1942 he began studying architecture, although he soon abandoned it to devote himself to the plastic arts. His father's post-impressionist influence and his particular cézannism mark the works presented in his first exhibition, held in 1946 at the Pictòria galleries in Barcelona, where he exhibited with the group Els Vuit. Subsequently, he will elaborate a poetic abstraction, amorphous in its configuration, free and intelligent, the result of a slow gestation and based on environments, themes, objects or graphics of everyday life. Ràfols Casamada works with these fragments of reality, of life, in a process of disfigurement, playing with the connotations, the plastic values and the visual richness of the possible different readings, in an attempt to fix the transience of reality. In 1950 he obtained a scholarship to travel to France, and settled in Paris until 1954. There he became acquainted with post-cubist figurative painting, as well as the work of Picasso, Matisse, Braque and Miró, among others. These influences were joined in his painting to that of American abstract expressionism, which was developing at the same time. When he finally returned to Barcelona, he embarked on his own artistic path, with a style characterized by compositional elegance, based on orthogonal structures combined with an emotive and luminous chromaticism. After showing an interesting relationship, in the sixties and seventies, with neo-dada and new realism, his work has focused on purely pictorial values: fields of color in expressive harmony on which gestural charcoal lines stand out. He has received a multitude of awards, such as the National Plastic Arts Award from the Ministry of Culture in 1980, the Creu de Sant Jordi in 1982 and the CEOE Arts Award in 1991. In 1985 he was named Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters of France, and is an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid. In 2003 the Generalitat awarded him the National Visual Arts Prize of Catalonia, and in 2009, just two months before his death, Grup 62 paid tribute to him at the National Art Museum of Catalonia. His work can be found in the most important museums around the world: the Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Guggenheim and MOMA in New York, the Museum of Modern Art in Los Angeles, the Picasso Museum in France, the Georges Pompidou in Paris and the British Museum and the Tate Gallery in London, among many others.

Lot 404

Estim. 1 500 - 1 850 EUR

1 standard Yvert et Tellier album containing a set of French stamps in two parts: 1st part: period 1849/1900 Napoleon type, Ceres, Sage, Bordeaux mainly cancelled with some mint, 1st and 2nd choice, some good signed values, for a total value of approx. 17200 euros. 2nd part: new Blanc, Semeuse, Merson types, new GC paper, new Poste Aérienne stamps, some cancelled Colonies générales stamps, France Libre series. Total value of 2nd part approx. 2300 euros.

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