19th and 20th Century Sculpture
19th and 20th Century Sculpture
Paul-Jean-Baptiste Gasq
Orpheus and Eurydice
Lot Closed
December 9, 02:21 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Paul-Jean-Baptiste Gasq
French
1860 - 1944
Orpheus and Eurydice
signed: P. Gasq, and with a plaque inscribed: PRESQUE AUX PORTES DU JOUR, TROUBLÉ HORS DE LUI-MÊME / IL S'ARRÊTE, IL SE TOURNE..... IL REVOIT CE QU'IL AIME / C'EN EST FAIT UN COUP D'OEIL A DÉTRUIT SON BONHEUR / VIRGILE
bronze, green-brown patina, on a veined red marble base and a red marble and black marble column with ormolu mounts
bronze and base: 120cm., 47 1/4 in.
column: 118cm., 46 1/2 in.
Paul Jean Baptiste Gasq excelled in classical and allegorical subjects. Numbering among his many public commissions are his Médée in marble in the Jardins de Tuileries, as well as L’Art et La Nature to the left of the entrance of the Grand Palais. Both monumental marbles impress with their drama and motion. The present model maintains much of the vitality that characterises Gasq’s public monuments. The tragedy of Orpheus' loss of Eurydice in the underworld is palpable in this languidly dynamic composition, which is presented on an impressive ornate base. The present bronze is a particularly large cast of the model.
Gasq was a student at the School of Fine Arts in Dijon, before studying under Jouffrey and Hiolle at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He began exhibiting at the Salon in 1880 and won the Prix de Rome in 1890, followed by a Grand Prix at the Exposition Universelle of 1900. He was conservateur of the Musée de Dijon from 1932 and was made a member of the Institute in 1935.
RELATED LITERATURE
E. Bénézit, Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs, Gründ, 1999, vol. V, pp. 892-893
Gasq was a student at the School of Fine Arts in Dijon, before studying under Jouffrey and Hiolle at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He began exhibiting at the Salon in 1880 and won the Prix de Rome in 1890, followed by a Grand Prix at the Exposition Universelle of 1900. He was conservateur of the Musée de Dijon from 1932 and was made a member of the Institute in 1935.
RELATED LITERATURE
E. Bénézit, Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs, Gründ, 1999, vol. V, pp. 892-893