Now well integrated into the circle of Montmartre artists, he often goes to the Cirque Médrano with Picasso and frequents the Bateau-Lavoir, where he meets the painters Derain and Vlaminck as well as the writer and critic Apollinaire.
Aux portraits, aux femmes, aux paysages viennent s'ajouter des acrobates, des clowns, des écuyères. Il se rend souvent avec Picasso au cirque Médrano.