Gaston Petit was a French sculptor who lived in Paris. He was a student of Jean-Antoine Injalbert. As a member of the Société des artistes français, he exhibited in the salons from 1913. One of his works in public space is a bronze bust for the sculptor Jean-Marie Mengue in Bagnères-de-Luchon. Petit created several monuments for victims of World War I, including in the Indian Puducherry, at the time a French colony. In Amsterdam, he submitted busts of the aviation pioneers Nungesser and Coli. A life-size bust of Nungesser made of plaster can be found in the Étretat Museum on the Normandy coast. This is where their plane had left French territory. However, there is also a 22 cm high version made of bronze and a version reduced to Nungesser’s head. Petit was also involved in the Monument for Nungesser and Coli, to be erected in Etretat by Louis Rey, submitted for the architecture competition.
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