Biography 1951
In Moscow, he visited the Pushkin Museum, where he vainly sought out the works of Wassilij Kandinskij, still state-censored. He however managed to see some of Kazimir Malevics masterpieces, preserved at the Tretiakova Gallery. Among his favourite models, Piero della Francescas luminary-spatial theorems and Andrea Mantegnas classic syntheses. During a stay in Cannes, he visits Pablo Picasso, then living in Vallauris, a number of times. The Spanish artist was a true myth for all young artists.