Back to Brazil, he settled in Rio de Janeiro where he studied at the National School of Fine Arts.

He was awarded at the National Salon of Fine Arts, in 1945, for the bas-relief of the baptistery of the Church of Saint Francis of Assisi, in Belo Horizonte.

He met Oscar Niemeyer, who commissioned him a sculpture for the Architectural Ensemble of Pampulha, in Belo Horizonte.

The citizens of Belo Horizonte considered immoral, it was kept for many years until it was finally exposed in a garden in Pampulha.

In 1960 he sculpted, in granite, As três forças armadas, one of the themes in the Monument to the Dead of World War II, in Rio de Janeiro.