 Bazaine was to develop into a significant Modern School of Paris painter.A fire in his workshop in 1945 destroyed almost his entire production, leaving only scant reference to his important series of watercolors of the 1930s that prefigured the experimental feel of his mature work.His work was first shown in company with Jean Fautrier, and Marcel Gromaire (Galerie Jeanne Castel, Paris 1930).