From the late 40s Lorelle experimented with Surrealism, especially in his nude studies, and the imagery was sometimes was reused in advertising, like his Femme en morceaux in which a statue of a woman lies broken, which was used in a 1948 magazine promotion for Odorono deodorant with the caption; "Un souffle suffit à renverser l'idole" ("One sniff is enough to topple the idol.") His surrealist artistic photography was often combined with drawing, often through an experimental reworking of negatives treated as cliché-verre. He made photomontage and would collage drawings with photographs and write or paint on photographic prints
