[1] He was the founder of Atelier Libre (1964), the first printshop in Canada which made printmaking facilities available to contemporary artists, as well as the Guilde Graphique (1966).
[4][5] From 1961 to 1963, a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts enabled him to do internships at several European engraving workshops including Atelier 17 of Stanley William Hayter in Paris.
[6] In 1964 in Montreal he opened l'Atelier Libre de Recherches Graphiques with the assistance of the Ministry of Cultural Affairs of Quebec.
It served at first as the publishing house, distributor, dealer and exhibition area for the prints produced by Atelier Libre but then became an independent focus for printmaking in Montreal.
[6] Besides his participation in numerous solo and group shows at public and private galleries, both in Canada and abroad, he had a retrospective at the Guilde Graphique, Richard Lacroix: Exposition rétrospective: Gravures et peintures choisies (1959-1984) (1984).