In 1961, he won the Grand Prize of Young Mediterranean painting and had decided to fully devote into art. In 1982, he was awarded the Medal of the City of Paris and the Honorary Citizen of the city of the New Orleans. The decoration art La vie est une fête which he created for Chapelle Saint- Sauveur in Le Cannet is now a wellknown local attraction. His artwork had been collected by Saint-Paul-de-Vence in France, the Esplanade Sephardic Synagogue in Strasbourg, Musée d’art moderne et art contemporain in Nice, and Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles.