| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| Date of Issue | September 21, 2019 |
| Year | 2019 |
| Quantity | 75,000 |
| Denomination |
$1.27
|
| Series | Leonard Cohen |
| Series Time Span | 2019 |
| Postal Administration | Canada |
| Condition | Name | Avg Value |
|---|
Product # 404118107
$8.52
Salute the incredible career of acclaimed Canadian writer and musician Leonard Cohen with this pane of six stamps. The pane features three PermanentTM domestic stamps, one oversized-rate stamp, one U.S.-rate stamp and one international rate stamp. The stamps feature three photographs of Cohen at a different stage of his illustrious career. The image of Cohen on the background of the pane is a photograph by his daughter, Lorca Cohen.
Born in Montréal in 1934, Cohen was an award-winning poet during his days at McGill University. More poetry and two novels followed after he graduated, including Beautiful Losers in 1966. The following year, Cohen launched a new career in music with an appearance at the Newport Folk Festival and the release of his debut album, Songs of Leonard Cohen. In 1984, Cohen released the album Various Positions. It features “Hallelujah,” his most popular and most covered song.
A member of the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame, Cohen has also been honoured with multiple JUNO awards and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Cohen died in 2016 at the age of 82, one month after releasing his final album, You Want It Darker. The album’s title track would go on to win the 2018 Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance.
The issue date of September 21, 2019, was chosen to coincide with the 85th anniversary of Cohen’s birth.
Product # 404118107
$8.52
Product # 404118149
$19.95
Get in tune with a Canadian legend with this uncut press sheet honouring acclaimed writer and musician Leonard Cohen. The limited edition uncut press sheet features 12 stamps; three permanent-rate stamps featuring all three designs, plus three sets of three US-, Oversized- and International-rate stamps. The background photograph, by renowned Canadian photographer Arnaud Maggs, depicts Leonard Cohen on the streets of his beloved city of Montréal.
The folded press sheet comes packaged in a simulated liner and album cover, inspired by Cohen’s many recordings—a Canada Post first!
Born in Montréal in 1934, Cohen was an award-winning poet during his days at McGill University. More poetry and two novels followed after he graduated, including Beautiful Losers in 1966. The following year, Cohen launched a new career in music with an appearance at the Newport Folk Festival and the release of his debut album, Songs of Leonard Cohen. In 1984, Cohen released the album Various Positions. It features “Hallelujah,” his most popular and most covered song.
A member of the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame, Cohen has also been honoured with multiple JUNO awards and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Cohen died in 2016 at the age of 82, one month after releasing his final album, You Want It Darker. The album’s title track would go on to win the 2018 Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance.
The issue date of September 21, 2019, coincides with the 85th anniversary of Cohen’s birth.
Product # 404118149
$19.95
Product # 414118131
$11.95
Add this celebrated Canadian icon to your collection with a set of four Official First Day Covers featuring acclaimed Canadian writer and musician Leonard Cohen. One Official First Day Cover bears all three Permanent domestic stamps from this issue, while the others feature the oversized-rate stamp, the U.S.-rate stamp and the international-rate stamp, respectively.
Each Official First Day Cover features a photograph of Cohen at a different stage of his illustrious career. On the reverse, engaging historical text tells the story of Cohen’s life, work, awards and achievements.
The stamps are postmarked in Cohen’s home city of Montréal, and each Official First Day Cover is cancelled with a different pictorial cancellation, inspired by art from his albums. The issue date of September 21, 2019, was chosen to coincide with the 85th anniversary of Cohen’s birth in 1934.
Born in Montréal in 1934, Cohen was an award-winning poet during his days at McGill University. More poetry and two novels followed after he graduated, including Beautiful Losers in 1966. The following year, Cohen launched a new career in music with an appearance at the Newport Folk Festival and the release of his debut album, Songs of Leonard Cohen. In 1984, Cohen released the album Various Positions. It features “Hallelujah,” his most popular and most covered song.
A member of the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame, Cohen has also been honoured with multiple JUNO awards and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Cohen died in 2016 at the age of 82, one month after releasing his final album, You Want It Darker. The album’s title track would go on to win the 2018 Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance.
Product # 414118131
$11.95
Product # 414118131
$11.95
Add this celebrated Canadian icon to your collection with a set of four Official First Day Covers featuring acclaimed Canadian writer and musician Leonard Cohen. One Official First Day Cover bears all three Permanent domestic stamps from this issue, while the others feature the oversized-rate stamp, the U.S.-rate stamp and the international-rate stamp, respectively.
Each Official First Day Cover features a photograph of Cohen at a different stage of his illustrious career. On the reverse, engaging historical text tells the story of Cohen’s life, work, awards and achievements.
The stamps are postmarked in Cohen’s home city of Montréal, and each Official First Day Cover is cancelled with a different pictorial cancellation, inspired by art from his albums. The issue date of September 21, 2019, was chosen to coincide with the 85th anniversary of Cohen’s birth in 1934.
Born in Montréal in 1934, Cohen was an award-winning poet during his days at McGill University. More poetry and two novels followed after he graduated, including Beautiful Losers in 1966. The following year, Cohen launched a new career in music with an appearance at the Newport Folk Festival and the release of his debut album, Songs of Leonard Cohen. In 1984, Cohen released the album Various Positions. It features “Hallelujah,” his most popular and most covered song.
A member of the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame, Cohen has also been honoured with multiple JUNO awards and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Cohen died in 2016 at the age of 82, one month after releasing his final album, You Want It Darker. The album’s title track would go on to win the 2018 Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance.
Product # 414118131
$11.95
Born in Montréal, Quebec, on September 21, 1934, Leonard Cohen’s first poetry collection was released a year after he graduated from McGill University in 1955. While living on the Greek island of Hydra in the 1960s, he published three more volumes of poetry and two novels, including the critically acclaimed Beautiful Losers. In 1967, he made his debut as a singer-songwriter at the Newport Folk Festival and released Songs of Leonard Cohen – an album that included two of his most famous songs, “Suzanne” and “So Long, Marianne.”
In 1984, Cohen released his album Various Positions containing the track that would become his most popular and likely most covered song, “Hallelujah.” Following the release of the internationally acclaimed I’m Your Man (1988) and The Future (1992), Cohen received the first two of his eight career JUNO Awards in 1993. That decade he was invested into the Order of Canada, inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, and received an honorary doctorate in literature from McGill University and a Governor General’s Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement.
In 2001, after five years in a Buddhist monastery and a long hiatus from recording, Cohen released Ten New Songs. Over the next several years, he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and he won a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2012, Old Ideas became his highest Billboard-charting album in the United States. Popular Problems topped the 2014 Billboard Canadian Albums chart and won the JUNO Award for Album of the Year in 2015. The month following the October 2016 release of his critically acclaimed You Want It Darker, Cohen died in his Los Angeles home at the age of 82. The album’s title track went on to win the 2018 Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance.
The images on the three stamp designs by Montréal’s Paprika follow the chronology of Cohen’s career in music. Denominated at the Permanent™ domestic rate in the nine-stamp booklet, the designs have been reconfigured at the U.S., oversized and international rates for a collectible uncut press sheet, four OFDCs and a gummed pane.
Montreal’s 21-storey high mural tribute originates from a 2013 proposal by Canadian Gene Pendon, a visual artist based in Montreal. Initially developed as part of Mu's "Les Bâtisseurs" series, a collection of local mural homages to cultural icons of Montreal. Mu is a non-profit organization with the mandate of the democratization of public art in Montreal. The idea of collaborating with American muralist, El Mac, who lives and works from Los Angeles, would serve to connect the two cities where Leonard Cohen and his family called home, both at the beginning and at the end of his life, within the single tribute to the Canadian poet and songwriter.
The proposal, initially proposed to coincide with Leonard Cohen's 80th birthday in 2014 and intended as a local tribute in the neighborhood of his Montreal home, would only be re-visited to be developed as a project shortly after Mr. Cohen's death November 2016, and would be adopted by then-Mayor, Denis Coderre and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, as the city of Montreal's tribute dedicated to the Cohen family, to the country and Leonard Cohen fans from around the world.