Having become a qualified decorator, the chance of an order led him to Percival Rosseau, painter American established in Rolleboise, to whom he showed his first paintings.

Besides Maximilien Luce, Ridgway Knight, Percival Rosseau, he also frequents Georgette Agutte, Herbert Ward, Jean Texcier.

[1] When the First World War struck, although reformed due to poor health, he enlisted as a voluntary combatant with the rank of corporal, took part in various battles, but was seriously wounded in the head on July 2, 1917 at Chemin des Dames.

After having been trepanned, hospitalized for a year, he remains war disabled, suffering from headaches, dizziness, dysmnesia and partial deafness.,[5][2][6] but he nevertheless continues to exercise his art.

He exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants where Apollinaire noticed him and judged, in 1914, that his landscapes were “delicate like the sites of Sequania which inspired them”[15]His favorite technique is oil painting, and his subjects are mostly landscapes without people where water dominates: banks of the Seine, ponds, lakes, bridges, seaside, ports... called himself "the last impressionist of the 20th century".