Georges Saupique was a French sculptor born on 17 May 1889 in Paris.
18 Facts About Georges Saupique
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Georges Saupique married Jacqueline Bouchot a professor at the Ecole du Louvre.
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Georges Saupique was a friend of the sculptor Raymond Delamarre and started to show his work at the Salon des artistes francais in 1922.
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Georges Saupique created several reliefs for the front of the SFFC building on rue Pasquier, and seven of these are still in place.
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Clearly Georges Saupique had a love of and a knowledge of animals.
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Georges Saupique created a huge body of work in his lifetime and this is a summary of most of these sculptures.
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Georges Saupique was involved in war memorials covering both World Wars.
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Georges Saupique created several decorative works for the passageways of the ocean liner "Normandie" which was broken up in 1942.
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In 1933 Georges Saupique was commissioned to work on one of three "dessus-de-porte" to be placed above the doors of the new "salle des fetes".
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In 1952 Georges Saupique carried out some sculptural decoration for this station but this was removed when further changes made in 1963.
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Georges Saupique executed a "Chemin de Croix" and a depiction of the Assumption in 1958 for this cathedral.
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Georges Saupique executed a statue of St Thomas for the north tower.
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Around the church entrance Georges Saupique executed 12 bas-reliefs on 12 panels these depicting:-.
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Finally Georges Saupique carved 4 huge winged angels which stand on each corner of the bell tower.
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Georges Saupique's sculpture was first shown at the 1922 Salon de la Societe des Artistes Francais.
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The adjudicating committee established to organize Meymac's war memorial received three maquettes from Georges Saupique and chose the work entitled "Le semeur de lauriers" in which a soldier places a sprig of laurel on the grave of a dead comrade.
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On this base Georges Saupique's sculpture depicts 4 large calibre mortars between which are bas-reliefs depicting scenes from 1914 to 1918.
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Georges Saupique sculpted the figure of Christ involved, this cast in bronze.