In 1910, he was one of the winners of the Abd-el-Tif prize and spent two years at the Villa Abd-el-Tif in Algiers, where he turned from pastels to oil painting. After returning, he opened a studio and produced numerous Orientalist works.
He was mobilized at the beginning of World War I. After being gassed, he was transferred to the Section de Camouflage, under the command of an old acquaintance, the painter André Dunoyer de Segonzac. During this time, he managed to paint some Cubist scenes of the war.
In the late 1920s, he became a teacher at the "Académie scandinave[fr]", an art school established with Scandinavian patronage that operated from 1919 to 1935. In 1936, he created more tapestry designs for the Mobilier National. That same year, he painted decorations in the foyer of the Palais de Chaillot. His last commission, completed just before his death, involved five large murals for the "Faculté de pharmacie de Paris[fr]", a division of Paris Descartes University. A major retrospective of his work was presented at the Venice Biennale shortly after his death.
Jean-Luc Dufresne, Charles Dufresne, Hommage de son pays d'origine, exhibition catalog, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Granville, 1988 ISBN978-2-903039-04-2
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