Paul Gasq

French sculptor

Paul Jean-Baptiste Gasq (30 March 1860 – 28 October 1944) was a French sculptor, born in Dijon.^[1]

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 the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he took the Prix de Rome in 1890 and studied there until 1894.^[2] He also won a Grand Prix at the Exposition Universelle (1900).

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

Work

marble group symbolizing National Education, at the tomb of Eugène Spuller, Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, circa 1896
Medea, Jardin des Tuileries, 1896
marble and bronze statue of President Marie François Sadi Carnot, Dijon, Place de la Republique, 1899, in collaboration with Mathurin Moreau
marble group, The Glory of the Generals of the Revolution, at the Pantheon, Paris
facade allegorical group La Révélation artistique (or Sculpture) at the Grand Palais, Paris, 1900
Fountaine Subé, (with fellow sculptors Paul Auban and Louis Baralis), Reims, 1906
architectural bronze Summer and Winter for the Whiteleys department store, Bayswater, London, 1911
the relief La mobilisation 1914, war memorial in Dijon, 1923
monumental marine fountain, Square Louise-Michel, Montmartre, Paris, 1932
L'Electricité on the facade of the Gare de Lyon

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References

^ Peigné, Guillaume, ... (2012). Dictionnaire des sculpteurs néo-baroques français, 1870-1914 (in French). Paris: Éd. du CTHS. pp. 250–256. ISBN 978-2-7355-0780-1. OCLC 828238758.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ The Monumental News. R.J. Haight. 1896. p. 502.

External links

Paul Gasq in American public collections, on the French Sculpture Census website

World War I War Memorials in France

Articles by department

Aisne
Eastern Somme
Oise
Western Somme

Memorials

Australia	Australian Memorial Park Mont Saint-Quentin Australian war memorial V.C. Corner Australian Cemetery and Memorial Villers–Bretonneux Australian National Memorial
Canada	Bourlon Wood Memorial Canadian National Vimy Memorial Courcelette Memorial Dury Memorial Le Quesnel Memorial
France / French & German	Douaumont Ossuary Glade of the Armistice Hartmannswillerkopf L'Âme de la France Notre Dame de Lorette Verdun Memorial
India	Neuve-Chapelle Indian Memorial
Newfoundland	Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial Gueudecourt (Newfoundland) Memorial Masnières Newfoundland Memorial Monchy-le-Preux (Newfoundland) Memorial
South Africa	Delville Wood South African National Memorial
United States	Aisne-Marne American Cemetery and Memorial Château-Thierry American Monument Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery Montfaucon Monument Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial St. Mihiel American Cemetery and Memorial Somme American Cemetery and Memorial Suresnes American Cemetery and Memorial
United Kingdom / Commonwealth	51st (Highland) Division Monument (Beaumont-Hamel) Arras Flying Services Memorial Arras Memorial Hohenzollern Redoubt Memorial La Ferté-sous-Jouarre memorial Le Touret Memorial Loos Memorial Mametz Wood Memorial McCrae's Battalion Great War Memorial Pozières Memorial Quéant Road Cemetery Soissons Memorial Thiepval Memorial Ulster Tower Vis-en-Artois Memorial