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OIL ON CANVAS FROM 1957. 92X73CM.... AN ATYPICAL WORK IN THE VEIN OF ZAO WOU KI
He won the Antonio Prize in 1931, the Arte Sacra Prize in 1932 and the Modigliani Prize and participated in various national and international exhibitions.
In 1946 he moved to Montparnasse and befriended Matisse, Braque and especially Jacques Villon who invited him to join the Puteaux group. He exhibited in avant-garde salons.
Salon de Mai 53,54 and 59. and Takes part in important exhibitions of the School of Paris at the Galerie Charpentier in 56-57. Exhibits at the Venice Biennale in 1956 at the Quadrennial in Rome in 55-65.
In 1991 the city of Milan organized a retrospective at the Museum of Fine Arts.
His work is represented in private and public collections in France, Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Germany, United States, Belgium, Sweden, Norway Egypt.
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