Robert Wogensky (1919 2019) In Flight. Limited Edition Pressed Painting By Formica
Foix, France
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Item details
Height
49.0 cm
Width
64.5 cm
Depth
0.3 cm
Wear conditions
Good
Wear conditions
Excellent
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Good
May show slight traces of use in keeping with age. Most vintage and antique items fit into this condition.
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Likely to show signs of some light scratching and ageing but still remains in a fair condition.
Apparent Wear and Tear
Visible signs of previous use including scratches, chips or stains.
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Description
Robert WOGENSKY (1919-2019) - In flight. Limited edition pressed painting by Formica
Robert Wogensky was born at 158 bis, avenue de Suffren in the 15th arrondissement of Paris. His family has lived in France for several generations. Brother of the architect André Wogenscky3, student from 1925 to 1937 at the Lycée Buffon while regularly visiting museums4, Robert Wogensky decided to become a painter when he saw Picasso's "Guernica" at the 1937 Exhibition. His artistic studies at the he workshop René Jaudon (where he had Jean-Claude Guignebert dit Vincent as a fellow student, with whom he befriended4) then at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris were very quickly interrupted by the war.
Painting pressed in limited edition by Formica on the occasion of the inauguration of the giant press at the Formica factory in Quillan on December 1, 1970.
Inscription on the back "au vol" composition Robert Wogensky on the occasion of the giant press inauguration of the Formica factory Quillan - Aude - France on 1-12-1970
Pressed in limited edition by Formica
Height: 49 cm - 19.29 inches
Width: 64.5 cm - 25.39 inches
Thickness: 0.3 cm - 0.11 inches
Weight: 1.2 kg
A bit of history on the Formica factory: In France, it was in Quillan in the Aude that the Formica factory was set up at the very beginning of the 1950s, instead of a hat shop, then in loss of momentum, the staff being maintained and trained in the new activity.
Then the Formica factory in Quillan will experience such a boom that the brand will become the economic and social engine of the entire region.
Formica is a material invented in the United States at the beginning of the 20th century, initially used as an electrical insulator instead of "mica".
The name is all found "for" (for, instead of) "mica".
In France, it arrives with the Americans, at the same time as nylon and chewing gum.
“Formica laminated plastic” is an assembly of sheets of kraft paper impregnated with synthetic resin, a phenomenon of polymerization doing the rest
From there we obtain sheets of Formica that we plate on the piece of furniture or the object that we want to make.
With the oil crisis of the early 1970s, the price of resins exploded and that of Formica too, the decline was felt in the mid-1970s and a social plan would take place every two years.
The death of the factory was announced on December 5, 2003. It marked the beginning of the difficult discussions on the social plan for the inter-union and the retraining of the 149 employees.
On June 30, 2004, the last machines from the Quillan plant were loaded into the moving trucks.
Condition report:
There is a surface scratch.
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