sentences:  In 1902 he entered the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, but then moved to the Académie Julian and studied under Jean-Paul Laurens.He spent parts of the next several years in the Netherlands, producing paintings in a dark style derived from the Dutch Masters.In 1906 his large oil "La Fete du Bourgmestre" received an honorable mention at the Paris Salon; it was subsequently purchased by a group of friends in San Francisco and given to the San Francisco Art Association.