PAUL GASQ

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Paul Jean-Baptiste Gasq (born March 30, 1860, in Dijon; died October 28, 1944, in Paris) was a French sculptor.

He was born in Dijon, on Rue de la Gare, at the Andriot residence. He was the son of Joseph Gasq, a railroad employee who normally resided at 2 Rue de Perrache in Lyon, and his wife, Ursule Jacotot, who had no profession.

He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Dijon and, beginning in 1879, at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris. In 1890, he won the prestigious Prix de Rome for sculpture and became a resident at the Villa Medici in Rome from 1891 to 1894.

At the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français, he received a second-class medal in 1893, a first-class medal in 1896, and the Medal of Honor in 1911.

He became a member of the Académie des beaux-arts in 1935 (Seat 6) and served as curator of the Museum of Fine Arts of Dijon from 1932 to 1943.

Paul Gasq died in 1944 in the 17th arrondissement of Paris. He was initially buried in Batignolles Cemetery before being reinterred at the Pejoces Cemetery in Dijon.

Major Works (selection)

1893–1896 – Medea. Marble statue, Paris, Tuileries Garden (installed there since 1904).
1899 – Grief. Marble statue from the Monument to Sadi Carnot by Mathurin Moreau, Dijon, Place de la République.
1899 – Glory. Bronze statue crowning the Monument to Sadi Carnot, Dijon, Place de la République.
1900 – The Awakening of the Spring. Marble statue of a young woman awakening, Brochon, vestibule of the château.
1900 – Tomb of Bishop Rivet. Cenotaph of Bishop Rivet (1796–1884), Dijon, Dijon Cathedral (north aisle).
1900 – Artistic Revelation (also known as Art and Nature or Sculpture). Marble group, 4.80 m high, Paris, Grand Palais, to the left of the entrance.
1901 – Tomb of Eugène Spuller. Marble group, Paris, Père Lachaise Cemetery (35th division).
1904 – Monument to Bossuet. Marble statue, installed in 1921 at the apse of Saint-Jean Church, Place Bossuet, Dijon.
1905–1906 – Subé Fountain. Marble group, Reims, Place Drouet-d’Erlon.
1907–1909 – Day and Night. Bas-relief framing the clock of the post office, Place Grangier, Dijon.
1911 – Tony Noël. Bust and bas-relief (now lost) in bronze adorning the sculptor’s grave, Paris, Père Lachaise Cemetery (35th division).
1912–1916 – Medallion of the Grangier couple and statue of Kindness. Dijon.
1923 – Sacred Heart Christ. White limestone statue, Saint-Quentin, Basilica of Saint-Quentin.
1924 – The Departure. Stone high relief, Dijon, Allées du Parc.
1931 – Monument to the Grangier couple. Pink limestone monument with a white marble medallion, Nuits-Saint-Georges, local hospital.
1932 – Monumental Fountain. Marble basins; fountain dedicated to sea gods, Paris, Square Louise-Michel.
1933 – Monument to Paul Cabet. Bronze bust, Nuits-Saint-Georges, belfry.
1938 – Eugène Piron. Medallion depicting the sculptor, a pupil of Paul Gasq, Dijon, Square Darcy.

He also produced other works in Paris, Nice, Beaulieu-sur-Mer, Dreux, and elsewhere in France.

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