In Paris he opened his own gallery called La Fenêtre Ouverte. Cézanne, Dalí, Gargallo, Derain, Dufy, Matisse, Miró, Picasso and Vlaminck were some of the artists who exhibited there. His proximity to the Champs Elysees allowed him to enter high Parisian society and make himself known. He moved to Paris in 1926, following the advice of Santiago Rusiñol, and lived there until 1938.
This drawing is a small sketch with charcoal, chalk and colored waxes, it shows us an endearing and touristic corner of Paris, the Pont de l’Archbishop with the spire at the bottom of Notre Dame Cathedral, destroyed by a fire on April 2019. It corresponds to his theme of views of the streets of Paris, and follows his personal style of realistic and traditional cut.