Career
He has been painting since the age of six, alongside Camille Pissarro and Alfred Sisley at home. After return from the army on medical grounds in 1915 he left for Provence to cure a pulmonary infection. He lived at Gassin in the Var, then Bormes-les-Mimosas.
In 1930 he left Bormes for Hyères where he lived till his death at the age of 88.