Paul Gasq

Paul Jean-Baptiste Gasq (1860 - 1944), French sculptor born in Dijon.

Gasq was a student at the Dijon School of Fine Arts and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he took the Prix de Rome in 1890. He also won a Grand Prix at the Exposition Universelle (1900).

Work includes:

* marble group symbolizing "National Education", at the tomb of Eugène Spuller, Pere 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, Willette Square, Montmarte, Paris, 1932