Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei irava - I haere ia ki te Whare Wananga o nga Toi Pai (i tenei wa tetahi waahanga o te Whare Wananga o Lisbon), katahi ka haere ki Paris i runga i te karahipi a te kawanatanga i te tau 1910. I reira, i ako ia i te École des Beaux-Arts. I tohaina e ia he whare mahi me Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso, a na Filippo Tommaso Marinetti ia i whakauru ki te Futurism. He Monarchist kua whakapuakina, i muri i te Huringa 1910
I whawhai ia ki a João Chagas, te Kaikauwhau Potukara, he kaitautoko kaha ake o te Republicanism. Na tēnei i ngaro ai tana karahipi.