His international career continued with classes with Willi Baumeister in Frankfurt, an enriching experience interrupted by the rise of Nazism, which forced him to return to France. He married Marthe Robert, a union that accompanied his artistic maturation.
The post-war period marked his true emergence on the art scene. His first solo exhibition in 1949 launched a career that saw him exhibit alongside renowned masters. In 1959, critic Roger Van Gindertael praised the complexity and vibrancy of his work, drawing parallels with the Impressionists adapted to contemporary abstraction.
His recognition is confirmed through representations in leading galleries, including Galerie Maeght and Galerie Dina Vierny. His works are distinguished by their sophisticated color harmony and compositional complexity, testifying to the fruitful influence of his international training.
The year 1997 marked the height of his recognition with a major retrospective organized at the Couvent des Cordeliers in Paris, a belated but deserved consecration of a work built up over more than fifty years.
His death in 2001 was accompanied by a generous gesture that revealed his personality: in accordance with his wishes, his studio was bequeathed in 2002 to the National League Against Cancer. This posthumous donation testifies to his humanist commitment, extending beyond death his desire to contribute to the common good, a characteristic that enriches the portrait of an artist who cared about others as much as he cared about his art.
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