[2] Upon his arrival in France, he became friends with the sculptor Marec Szwarc and the painter Chaïm Soutine who helped him settle down in Paris and shared their studio with him.
Dobrinsky abandoned sculpture in favor of painting a year after his arrival, as a result of ill health.
In 1934, he moved to a larger studio in Montparnasse, and in the next few years he made his major breakthrough in the art scene.
In the first two years of the German occupation, Dobrinsky and his family stayed in Paris, but in 1942, in order to escape deportation, they fled to a small village Dordogne.
In 1950, he was invited by Serge and Rachel Pludermacher (the founders of an orphan home) to paint the portraits of the children in their institute.