The artistic influence of Paris at the turn of the 1930s, the massive installation of foreign artists and the holding of international exhibitions made the French capital the main center of expression of geometric abstraction. This great international movement was organized with the creation of groups defending non-figurative art, including Cercle et Carré (1929), founded by Michel Seuphor and Joaquin Torres Garcia, Art Concret (1930), around Theo van Doesburg (with Jean Hélion, Otto Carlsund, Léon Tutundjian and Marcel Wantz), then, above all, the Abstraction-Création association (1931-1936) chaired by Auguste Herbin and Georges Vantongerloo: Abstraction for “the progressive abstraction of the forms of nature”;Creation for a “purely geometric design or the exclusive use of elements commonly called abstract such as circles, planes, bars, lines. »