After having lived several years in Algeria, and in particular at the Villa Abd El Tif where he was a scholarship holder from 1946 to 1948, André Beaucé returned to France in 1949 and took up his professorship at the Paris schools.
After the dark years of the war, and no doubt affected by them, Beaucé's art expresses a violent vision of a certain reality, always brutal and yet always magnificent, by then his paintings were powerfully expressionist, free of any constraints.
During the 1950s, there were vigorous portraits captured in an almost caricatural format. He used tones in a very strong and uncompromising way, they were always very strong, and forcefully opposed in a vigorously cut composition.