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Paul Jean-Baptiste Gasq (30 March 1860 – 28 October 1944) was a French
sculptor
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, born in
Dijon
Dijon (, , ) (dated)
* it, Digione
* la, Diviō or
* lmo, Digion is the prefecture of the Côte-d'Or department and of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in northeastern France. the commune had a population of 156,920.
The earlies ...
.
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
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in
Paris
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, where he took the
Prix de Rome
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in 1890 and studied there until 1894. 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
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. He died in Paris
Work
* marble group symbolizing ''National Education'', at the tomb of
Eugène Spuller,
Père Lachaise Cemetery
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, Paris, circa 1896
*
Medea
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,
Jardin des Tuileries, 1896
* marble and
bronze statue of
President
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Marie François Sadi Carnot
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Early life
Marie François Sadi Carnot was the son of the statesman Hippo ...
, Dijon, Place de la Republique, 1899, in collaboration with
Mathurin Moreau
Mathurin Moreau (18 November 1822 – 14 February 1912) was a French sculptor in the academic style.
Moreau was born in Dijon, first exhibited in the 1848 Salon, and finally received a medal of honor from the Salon in 1897. He was made may ...
* marble group, ''The Glory of the Generals of the Revolution'', at the
Pantheon
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, Paris
* facade
allegorical
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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
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department store,
Bayswater,
London
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, 1911
* the relief ''La mobilisation 1914'', war memorial in Dijon, 1923
* monumental marine fountain, Square Louise-Michel,
Montmartre
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, Paris, 1932
* ''L'Electricité'' on the facade of the
Gare de Lyon
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1860 births
1944 deaths
Prix de Rome for sculpture
Artists from Dijon
École des Beaux-Arts alumni
Members of the Académie des beaux-arts
20th-century French sculptors
19th-century French sculptors
French male sculptors
19th-century French male artists
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