France y Belgium
In 1953 Eugenio Brito Honorato received an Italian government scholarship to study ceramics at the Richard Gironi State School, Sexto Florentino, Florence, Italy. Along with the scholarship studies, he spent time visiting museums and galleries in Florence, Rome, Milan, Genoa, Pisa, Naples, and Venice.
He moved to Charleroi, a tiny mining town in Belgium, the following year, 1954. He oversaw the renovation and decoration of the Les Petit Foucault Chapel. He subsequently went to Paris, France, where he worked as an assistant to the sculptor and ceramist George Jouve. He visited the studios of artists Constantin Brancusi and Ossip Zadkine.
During his August 1954 exhibition at La Salle de la Marie in Vallauris, he had the privilege of encountering Pablo Picasso, whom he knew via the Madoura Ceramic Studio and his acquaintance, the ceramist Dominique Baudart. He finished the year by touring museums and art galleries in the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Luxembourg.
