Spending much of the German occupation of Paris in hiding, he later settled near Picasso’s studio in Antibes in the south of France in 1950, where his work became progressively esoteric and several of his sculptures explored themes of androgyny and metamorphosis. Returning to Paris in the mid-1960s, he replaced sculpture with painting and continued to have the occasional small exhibition in the city. His enduring popularity within the art scene is demonstrated by accounts that in the 1960s he had his own table at the famous Montparnasse café, La Coupole, where apparently he would have a burger every night and hold court with different groups of artists and local bohemians. Whilst he is quite widely collected in France, he essentially never achieved great fame or financial success in his lifetime and sadly died in poverty at the age of 81 in his beloved Paris. The V&A has one print by him from ca. 1934 entitled ‘Metamorphose’ which the Circulation department acquired in 1939. It is in the style of a photogram a la Man Ray with the skeletal remains of a reptile, the body of a creature resembling a frog, a coil of metal, and a length of string captured in negative. (http://www.vam.ac.uk/blog/tales-archives/the-metamorphosis-of-anton-prinner)