 In 1971 he moved with his wife, Miriam Rewald, the gallerist, and two young children to Janville, a small town south of Paris, where he started making little objects, ‘things,’ as he liked to call them.Encouraged by artist friends, including the Surrealist, Manuel Alves, he timidly acquired painting material.Although he never tried to show his work publicly, word got around as he occasionally showed a new drawing or object to visitors.