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In 1918, almost at the end of World War I, I left my Paris studio to work in the country. I went to Beaulieu près Loches [[Beaulieu-lès-Loches]] and immediately I encountered great problems. It was absolutely impossible to continue the same work I had been doing in Paris because of material difficulties.

So I decided to carve a few bas-reliefs [[directly?]] in stone. At that time I was preoccupied with the idea of polychromed sculpture - which means for me [[strikethrough]] how to sculpt coloured surfaces and how to paint sculptured forms [[/strikethrough]], not just to colour a carved surface, but to conceive a sculptured form in colour from the beginning.

I found two plaques of stone and made two bas-reliefs - one multicoloured and the other one in different shades of one colour to white. I made before preliminary studies in gouache and somehow liked them. And since I had to bring my production once a month to my Paris dealer and realized that it was no easy task to travel during the war with a stone, I decided to make only studies in