He spent his childhood in Milan (Italy) and studied at the Regio Collegio Tomasseo school where he earned a Technical License in 1909.
That same year, at age 15, he returned to Buenos Aires to study at the National Academy of Fine Arts.
Over the next years of his radical life he lived in the towns of Sanary-Sur-Mer and Cagnes, France, where he met up with Raquel Forner, Alfredo Bigatti, Pedro Dominguez Neira, Alberto Moravia and Leopoldo Marechal.
In 1936, he settled permanently in Buenos Aires and opened the Atelier Libre of Contemporary Art on Corrientes Street in 1309, along with Horacio Butler.
With his work 'El hombre verde' he got the Martin Rodriguez Galisteo Acquisition Prize at the XIII Annual Santa Fe Exhibition.