Born November 23, 1915 in Paris. Died March 16, 1996. 20th century. French. Painter, gouache painter, designer. Polymorphic abstract. He was a military aviator, parachutist acrobat. He was also involved in theater. In 1942 he was part of a symphony orchestra. He was a bar pianist, night watchman, radio announcer in Montpellier, where he lived. In the 1930s, he met Henri Closon, one of the very first French abstract painters, who introduced him to painting. Since 1937, he has participated in the rare abstract art exhibitions organized in France. He only devoted himself entirely to painting after 1942. In 1949, with Francis Bott and Michel Seuphor, he organized an exhibition of abstract art at the Nîmes Museum. From 1950, he participated in the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles in Paris. In 1950, the Montpellier Museum dedicated a retrospective personal exhibition to him. Until a new personal exhibition in Paris in 1993, Galerie Sculptures, he had no longer appeared publicly, although he continued to work. Throughout his career, his abstract compositions take on several forms. At first, sometimes an uninterrupted arabesque left its intertwined trace on the surface of the canvas, like nostalgia for ancient developments in the sky. Then he mainly used gouache for material effects, less "aerial" and outside of gestures, aiming more at dreamy contemplation. During the 1970s, he abandoned gouache to focus on drawing and collages. His pen drawings, of perfect rigor, recall the poetic graphics of his friend Seuphor. The works presented below are oils on paper. The formats indicated correspond to the total format of the sheet.