Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I haere ia ki te Whare Wānanga o Ngā Toi Ataahua (i tēnei wā he wāhanga o te Whare Wānanga o Lisbon), kātahi ka haere ki Paris i runga i tētahi karahipi kāwanatanga 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. Ko te Monarchist whaki, i muri i te
I te Huringa 1910 ka raru ia ki a João Chagas, te Kaikauwhau Potukara, he kaitautoko kaha ake mo te Republicanism. Na tēnei i ngaro ai tana karahipi.