TRAVEL SOURCES OF INSPIRATION, THE WORKSHOP, PLACE OF LIFE AND CREATION.

Winner of the Paris City Prize with the sculpture « Nausicaa », he left in 1932 for a year in North Africa. He stayed at the Bahia Palace in Marrakech for a few months, as well in Fez in the “Boujeloud Workshops”. Traveling was a source of inspiration for him. He brought back from his residences abroad numerous portraits and busts.

He settled in 1937 in a studio in the Cité Fleurie with his wife Elizabeth Klein, American painter, studio in which he sculpted a large part of his work. He will stay there until the end of his life.