He was Gauguin's companion on his voyage to Panama and Martinique in 1888. He belonged to the Le Pouldu group and to the first generation of Symbolist painters (Gauguin, Emile Bernard, Anquetin). Two of his works, Landscape and Portrait of the Artist (1889), hang in the Musee d'art moderne in Paris.

Post-Impressionism, Michel-Claude Jalard, Edito Service SA, Geneva