Sculptor
Paul Gasq
1860-1943
Paul Jean-Baptiste Gasq, born in Dijon on 30 March 1860 and died in Paris on 28 October 1944, was a French sculptor.
Paul Gasq was born in the Andriot house in rue de la Gare, Dijon. He was the son of Joseph Gasq, a railway employee whose usual address was 2, rue de Perrache in Lyon, and his wife Ursule Jacotot, who had no occupation.
He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Dijon and then, from 1879, at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Winner of the First Prix de Rome for sculpture in 1890, he became a resident at the Villa Medici in Rome from 1891 to 1894.
At the Salon des Artistes français, he won a second-class medal in 1893, a first-class medal in 1896 and the Medal of Honour in 1911.
A member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts from 1935 (chair 6), he was curator of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Dijon from 1932 until 1943.
Paul Gasq died in 1944 in the 17th arrondissement of Paris. He was temporarily buried in the Batignolles cemetery, before being transferred to the Péjoces cemetery in Dijon.
