VITALIS in 1979 at the port of Moguériec (29 – Finistère), which has so often inspired its marines

Macario VITALIS in his workshop at Camille RENAULT’s, circa 1950

(with the kind permission of M.E. LEDOIGT)

VITALIS in 1958, at the age of 60

(photo by a Swiss photographer – award-winning photo)

VITALIS on a picnic, in 1969, at the age of 71 (Archives Michel Cornille et fils)

VITALIS with his model, in his workshop at Camille RENAULT, around 1950

(with the kind permission of M.E. LEDOIGT)

VITALIS on the island of Ouessant (29 – Finistère) in 1975

(with the kind permission of Mrs N. DANIEL)

The sculptor and his model: VITALIS in front of the bust sculpted by his friend Lucien PRIGENT, in 1982

(with the kind permission of Mrs S. PRIGENT)

The Philippine folkloric dance troupe BAYANIHAN during their 1962 tour in Paris.

VITALIS surrounded by his Plestinian friends for a suckling pig at the Hotel des Voyageurs in the late 1970s.

Once again, the party with his Plestinian friends at the Hotel des Voyageurs, in the 1970s.

VITALIS, elegant, in the early 1980s

“Portrait of Lenora CABILI” – 1986

VITALIS and its model, Lenora CABILI, in 1986 in the Philippines

VITALIS in the late 1960s – photo with his civilian signature

VITALIS in its workshop-house in Guergay, Plestin-les-Grèves in 1982

(photo published as an illustration for an article in the Philippine Airlines in-flight magazine in 1986)

Last meal with his friends from Plestin, in 1988, at the Hôtel des Voyageurs in Plestin-les-Grèves