 Its official start is set to be the exposition he held with António Dacosta and Pamela Boden in Lisbon in 1940.Afterwards, he visited Brazil in 1941 and exhibited his paintings in the then capital city of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.He directed the editorship of the review "Variante", he published two editions in 1942 and 1943, he took part in the seminary "Mundo Literário" ("World Literature") from 1946 to 1948.