After preparing for the Naval School, he entered the Académie Julian in Paris in 1910, and, on his return from the war in 1919, spent some time in Tunisia from where he brought back some brilliant sketches. Settled in Paris, he lived there quite regularly until his death. His work, produced mainly between 1921 and 1931, includes more than nine hundred paintings, three hundred drawings and several engravings. Like his friends André Dunoyer de Segonzac and Henri Le Fauconnier, he announces a form of expressionism, where the dense and dark material, organized in chiaroscuro, gives a solid volume to the rustic subjects he likes. We perceive a distant influence of cubism in his structured compositions, but with an expression of intense gravity (Le Repos dans le cellar, National Museum of Modern Art, Paris). His earthy roughness, however, excludes the picturesque, because the artist seems more preoccupied with plasticity than realism. During stays in Provence, in the last years of his life (1930-1931), his palette diversified. He meets the writer Jean Giono, for whom he will produce the illustrations for his novel Colline, and whose lyricism is very close to his own. The paint needs to be cleaned and restored, See photo