In 1902 he won the Rittmeyer scholarship and went to study in Rome for three years. Among his works from the period in Rome is the "Aurelio Arteta", presented in 1906 at the Milan International. He exposed at the Venice biennale in 1905, 1920, 1948, while in 1913 he had his first personal exhibition at the "Permanente di Trieste". Since 1910, he participated in the most important exhibitions, and was noticed and discussed by the "highest national and foreign critics."