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In March 1942, J.D. left Concarneau - he felt very lonely - and returned to Paris where he had finished his studies ten years before. Not far from the Place Denfert-Rochereau, i.e 63, Rue Daguerre, in the fourteenth district, he rented a room in the middle of workshops. He converted this big room of about seven meters by seven into a studio and a bedroom and fitted a charcoal stove before the winter. He stayed and worked in this comfortless place during more than fifteen years. His fellow-painters were not much better off. Nobody could afford a telephone, needless to say, a car. Every Thursday, towards the end of the day, J.D. would be visited by his friends - |
painters and critics - among. the most regular: Atlan, Huguette-Arthur Bertrand, Odile and Léon Degand, Dumitresco and Istrati, Charles Estienne, Babet and Emile Gilioli, Jacobsen, the Leppien, the Poliakoff, Nicolas de Stael and Jeannine Guillou... Another time, Atlan would invite them in his studio, Rue de la Grande Chaumière, or it would be Jeannine and Nicolas de Stael's turn, Rue Nolet. Every Saturday, the abstract painters would meet Rue La Boétie, at the Denise René Gallery. Then, while chatting, they would all go out to a small restaurant of the Rue Duvivier, in the seventh district . | ||||||
