Paul Gasq

Paul Jean-Baptiste Gasq(30 March 1860 – 28 October 1944) was a Frenchsculptor,born inDijon.

Photo print of Paul Gasq

The Artistic Revelation;Grand Palais

Life

His father was a railway employee who was often absent. He began his studies at the School of Fine Arts in Dijon then, in 1879, enrolled at theÉcole des Beaux-ArtsinParis,where he took thePrix de Romein 1890 and studied there until 1894.He also won a Grand Prix at theExposition Universelle (1900).

From 1932, he was the curator of the Dijon Museum. In 1935, he was elected a member of theAcadémie des Beaux-Arts.He died in Paris

Work

• marble group symbolizingNational Education,at the tomb ofEugène Spuller,Père Lachaise Cemetery,Paris, circa 1896
• Medea,Jardin des Tuileries,1896
• marble andbronzestatue ofPresidentMarie François Sadi Carnot,Dijon, Place de la Republique, 1899, in collaboration withMathurin Moreau
• marble group,The Glory of the Generals of the Revolution,at thePantheon,Paris
• facadeallegoricalgroupLa Révélation artistique(orSculpture) at theGrand Palais,Paris, 1900
• Fountaine Subé, (with fellow sculptors Paul Auban and Louis Baralis),Reims,1906
• architectural bronzeSummer and Winterfor theWhiteleysdepartment store,Bayswater,London,1911
• the reliefLa mobilisation 1914,war memorial in Dijon, 1923
• monumental marine fountain,Square Louise-Michel,Montmartre,Paris, 1932
• L'Electricitéon the facade of theGare de Lyon

External links

• Paul Gasqin American public collections, on the French Sculpture Census website