A few years later, in 1949, he also received the Rothschild Foundation Prize in London, before being accepted as a resident at the Casa Velázquez in Madrid—a significant milestone that allowed him to continue his artistic development and gain international recognition.

Following these accolades, his career flourished through numerous exhibitions and public commissions.
He participated in major Parisian art fairs such as the Salon des Artistes Français, the Salons d’Automne, and the Salon des Tuileries, and held solo exhibitions in Paris, Geneva, Lausanne, and Brussels.

An intimist painter, his work is often described as drawing on the pictorial language of artists such as Bonnard and Juillard, combining a delicate sensibility with a subtle mastery of color and form.
From his very first exhibition in 1943 at Petridès, his work received praise from writers and critics such as Paul Claudel and Sacha Guitry, who highlighted his ability to create a personal and unique visual universe

Here, the artist focuses all attention on the subject’s face, rendered with softness and subtlety using charcoal, creating a delicate interplay of light and shadow that sculpts the features and lends an almost photographic quality to the light and shadows.

The young woman wears a wide-brimmed hat, whose texture is suggested by light hatching and shading, and a veil adorned with stylized decorative motifs—such as flowers, geometric shapes, and organic details—that surround her face and frame her expression
These motifs add both an ornamental dimension and a sense of movement around the subject, almost like a delicate aura.