Education
He attended École des Beaux-Arts at the Sorbonne and studied under Bernand Corman and Lucien Simon (1861–1945).
He attended École des Beaux-Arts at the Sorbonne and studied under Bernand Corman and Lucien Simon (1861–1945).
From 1932 to 1935, Lamotte traveled to Paris, Tahiti and New New York In 1935 at the age of 32, he moved to New York City to pursue his art Lamotte’s atelier was located above Louisiana Grenouille restaurant () where fellow expatriate French artists and famed New York personalities congregated in including Greta Garbo, Charlie Chaplin and Marlene Dietrich.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry met Lamotte in art school in France, and in the early 1940s spent a great deal of time in Lamotte"s New York City studio at 3 East 52nd Street, called Le Bocal.
lieutenant was one of the places where Saint-Exupéry worked on Le petit prince. Lamotte also created the illustrations for Flight to Arras by Antoine de Saint-Exupérailway