In 1939 he joined the Foreign Legion. Demobilized in 1940, he lived in hiding in Roquebrune. Resistant, arrested, deported, he was liberated by the Allied Armies.
Back to Paris, he found that all of his production from the Berlin period, like that of the settlement in France, had disappeared. In 1946 he participated in the first exhibition of Réalités Nouvelles. In 1949 Galerie Colette Allendy organized his first solo exhibition for him. It was followed by a hundred others in the world including in 1954 New York, Brussels, Milan. In 1997 Galerie Lahumière de Paris organized a retrospective of his work.
Gouache framed under glass.