Paul Gasq
sculptor from France (1860–1944)
Paul Jean-Baptiste Gasq (30 March 1860 – 28 October 1944) was a French sculptor, born in Dijon.
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. 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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