 These studies would culminate in an influential text "Notes sur la peinture d'aujourd'hui" (1948), aimed at going beyond the boundaries -quite dogmatic at the time- of "abstract" and "figurative".It supplied the theoretical base for his creative criticism that found its practical use when he was invited, in 1952, by the Carnegie Foundation to sit as the European member of the jury for the "Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting" in company with the American painter William Baziotes.Bazaine did not pursue his initiation into sculpture, though he became one of the great friends of Alexander Calder, Henri Laurens and of Giacometti, his neighbour at his atelier in the Paris "Zone" -Porte de Vanves.