A new Greek stamp issue turns four paintings from the G. I. Katsigras collection into a miniature exhibition about women of the countryside. The commemorative series for the Municipal Art Gallery of Larissa – G. I. Katsigras Museum enters circulation on 9 October 2026, World Post Day, and links the museum's collection with the United Nations International Year of the Woman Farmer. Rather than presenting a single portrait, the sheet follows rural women through different stages of life and places their labour, care and relationship with agricultural production at the centre of the design.

The issue comprises four self-adhesive personalised stamps, each denominated at €1.20 and measuring 35 by 45 millimetres. The stamps are presented together in a sheet of four. Their source paintings are by Konstantinos Maleas (1879–1928), Theofrastos Triantafyllidis (1881–1955), Stavros Papapanagiotou (1885–1955) and Apostolos Geralis (1886–1983). Seen as a sequence, the four female figures move from childhood towards mature and advanced age. The museum describes the selection as a visual narrative of continuity: everyday scenes evoke work, care, animals, production and experience passed from one generation to the next.

Theano Venieri handled the design and adaptation of the paintings for the stamp format. VERIDOS MATSOUKIS S.A. Security Printing produced the issue by multicolour offset, with a total quantity of 5,000 stamps. That modest printing figure gives the release a distinctly local and museum-focused character. A related numbered illustrated envelope has also been produced in a quantity of 750. It carries an appropriate personalised stamp and can be cancelled with the special commemorative postmark prepared for the first-day event.

Collectors can obtain the stamps and associated philatelic products at the Municipal Art Gallery of Larissa from 18:00 on the day of issue, one hour before the public programme begins. The special commemorative cancellation will be used in the gallery's atrium on 9 October. After the launch, the issue is to remain available through Hellenic Post while stocks last. The same special postmark is also scheduled to be available in Athens on 14 and 21 October at the Syntagma Square post office, 2 Mitropoleos Street, extending the opportunity to prepare correctly dated commemorative material beyond Larissa.

The evening programme at the gallery places the stamps within their artistic and social context. Nikoleta Tzani will speak on the rural woman in the Georgios I. Katsigras collection, tracing the theme from youth to maturity, and visitors will be offered a thematic tour of the permanent display. Representatives of the Municipality of Larissa, the gallery, Hellenic Post and the Larissa Philatelic Union are due to take part. These elements make the launch more than a sales occasion: it is a museum interpretation of the four works and of the lives represented in them.

The choice of 9 October adds a second layer to the release. World Post Day marks the international postal network, while the International Year of the Woman Farmer calls attention to contributions that are essential to agrifood systems and family economies but have often been undervalued. By reproducing works from a regional public collection on usable postage, the issue allows those images to travel beyond the museum and carries a specifically Thessalian view of rural life into national and international mail.

For collectors, the strongest format is the intact four-stamp sheet because it preserves the progression across the four ages. The envelope, a first-day cancellation from the gallery and the later Athens postmark dates offer distinct collecting paths. It also suits thematic collections of women, agriculture, fine art and World Post Day.