Pierre Forget

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Pierre Forget (born the December 5th 1923 with Pontoise - died the January 30th 2005) is a draftsman and an engraver French of postage stamps.

Nephew of the painter Charles Forget, it enters to the École Estienne of which it is graduate in 1942. He becomes commercial and artistic engraver then, illustrator of books, reviews and publicities.

At the end of the Years 1950, it launches out in a Cartoon Thierry de Royaumont . The hero éponyme is a knight who wants to avenge the honor for his father, and will go for that until in Holy Land. On the four tome cheeses of the series, two receive a price of the Town of Paris.

It starts to engrave stamps thanks to Rene Cottet at the beginning of the Années 1960, while teaching at the Estienne School. The first emitted stamp that it engraves is a triangular postage-due stamp “the carrier of letter” for the Congo, on a drawing of Serres. Its first stamps are orders of the Research department of the stations and telecommunications of overseas (BEPTOM) which provided the French territories, as well as the colonies having very right asset their independence.

In 1968, it engraves its first French stamp drawn by its Master Rene Cottet: it is the “Medal of the fiftieth anniversary of the Accounts - postal checks - 1918-1968”. Cottet with the retirement, Forget replaced it as professor of the workshop of engraving of the École Estienne until in 1989.

Several of its works were a public success in spite of the increased use of the data processing of photography and colors printed to manufacture postage stamps more and more. Thus the series of stamps Mali ens on the independence states-unienne for which it completed an important research task: precision of the warships, scenes of battle, characters historical (Washington, Fayette, Of Fatty). Among the stamps remained famous:

a triptych for the 200e birthday of the independence of the the United States (Mali, 1975),
the series Jules Verne (Monaco),
the series of the characters of the French revolution (France, 1989),
the representation of the sailing first of race sponsored by La Poste (France, 1993).

Especially, in 1979, the Polynesian stamp for the “international Year of the child” receives a Grand Prix of philatelic art French, and the Prix of the most beautiful stamp of the world decreed by the international jury of Turin. The stamp, drawn and engraved by Forget, represents the profiles of two children; in their hair, plays and toys imagined by these two characters, as well as the logo of the agency of the the United Nations in charge of childhood (UNICEF).

Forget is one of the French engravers who knew to overcome the constraint of the restricted space of the stamp, to represent there works of art of great dimension or very pécises:

It tells that for the stamp “Europe - Series artistic” of 1993, it had to engrave in the metal punch of fine features for the trails of brush for reproduced most accurately possible table of Olivier Debré ( Rouge, blue rate/rhythm ).
For the stamp in homage to the national Manufacture of the Goblins, it acknowledges to have removed the three-quarters of the features of the table of Mathieu so that the stamp remains readable while being faithful.

To sometimes release from the constraints of the restricted space of the postal Stamp, it engraves the illustrations of the French philatelic documents. For example, it represents in an engraving all the life of Jacques Callot.

The last emitted postage stamp of alive sound is one of the series of minerals of TAAF, “the agate”, in January 2005.

Rewards

In 1990, Forget is decorated Chevalier with the National order of the Merit.

Cartoon

Price of the town of Paris for its cartoon, Thierry de Royaumont .
César of money of the cartoon, 1987.
Price of the best album for child, 1988.

Philately

Grand Prix of philatelic art French:

“Abbey of Fontenay - Coast-with Or” (France, 1977), drawn by Jean Chesnot.
“international Year of childhood” (French Polynesia, 1979).
“Saint-Pierre Abbey of Solesmes” (France, 1980).

a Grand Prix of the philatelic art of the African States:

“Bicentenary of the 1^re rise in balloon - Pilâtre de Rozier” (Gabon, 1983).

Price of the most beautiful stamp of the world, 1979: “International Year of the child” (French Polynesia, 1979).

List postal administrations

Here the list of the postal administrations having emitted stamps engraved and/or drawn by Pierre Forget:

France:

metropolis since 1968.
the Comoros: two stamps in 1967 and 1968.
Coast of Afars and Issas, a stamp in 1975.
French Coast of Somalis: a stamp in 1966.
New Caledonia: from 1967 to 1993.
French Polynesia: from 1968 to 1989.
Saint-Pierre-and-Miquelon: from 1972 to 1976, then a stamp in 1991.
southern and antarctic Lands French: since 1988.
Wallis-and-Futuna: a stamp in 1966 and three between 1985 and 1988.

Algeria: two stamps in 1965 and 1968.
Andorra: eight stamps of 1971 to 1992.
Benign: a stamp in 1979.
Kampuchea: a stamp in 1968.
Cameroun: six stamps between 1964 and 1974.
Central Africa: two stamps between 1964 and 1968.
Congo: thirteen stamps of 1961 to 1974.
Ivory Coast: nine stamps of 1965 to 1979.
Dahomey: six stamps of 1963 to 1972.
Gabon: between 1969 and 1978.
the Upper Volta: four stamps of 1969 to 1972.
Laos: three stamps of 1964 to 1967.
Madagascar: three stamps of 1967 to 1969.
Mali: thirteen stamps of 1969 to 1983.
Mauritania: two stamps in 1968 and 1972.
Monaco of 1968 to 1981.
Niger: twelve stamps of 1967 to 1973.
Senegal: ten stamps of 1967 to 1970.
Chad: from 1968 to 1971, and a stamp in 1985.
Togo: two stamps in 1972 and 1974.
Vietnam of the South: three stamps.

See too

Sources

Stamps magazine , out of the ordinary n° July 3rd, th and th - September 2003.

External bond

Site on Thierry de Royaumont

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