 In 1960 he was commissioned to execute a portrait of Tony Bulandra, husband of Lucia Sturdza Bulandra and probably Romania's best known actor at the time, for the museum of the National Theater Bucharest.He also did set design and costumes for the play "Mamouret" by Jean Sermet and toured with the Bulandra company to Budapest and elsewhere in Hungary, after which he stayed on another month in Budapest to settle tour matters.He took the opportunity to paint oil and watercolor paintings, to draw, and to befriend Hungarian painters.