Georges Vérez

Georges Armand Vérez was born in Lille on 1 August 1877 and died on 17 January 1932. He was a pupil of Louis-Ernest Barrias and Jules Coutan. In 1905 he was runner-up for the annual Prix de Rome for sculpture. After the end of the 1914-1918 war he was mostly involved executing sculptural work on war memorials for which the demand was huge.