The church Notre-Dame de Toute-Grâce on the Assy plateau in Haute Savoie, was consecrated in 1950. It became a manifesto of the revival of Catholic art in the post-war period. The artists Léger, Lurçat, Richier, Braque, Rouault, Bazaine, Chagall, and Matisse all contributed, as did Strawinsky with two mosaics, one of Therese de Lisieux and the other of Saint Joseph. In these artworks, the artist returns to the hieratic formality of early Christian art. Philippe Kaenel

Dr Maurice Gilbert, friend and doctor of Strawinsky, also a parishioner of Saint Paul in Geneva, commissioned in 1961 a mosaic he wants to offer to the Dominican Community, in charge of the parish. This gift is probably a way of commemorating the transfer of their convent from Annemasse to Geneva in 1962.

The mosaic realized for the UBS in their building of the Rue du Rhône in Geneva, detached and stored in 2012 during the works of transformation, was handed in donation to the Foundation in 2014. Thanks to the endless efforts of Yvan Lalanne-Berdouticq and the support of Olivier Frérot and Thierry Magnin, of the Fondation Le Cèdre (Alexander Carswell and Elias Kulukundis) and the skills of Michel Patrizio and his team (Marie-Laure Besson and Julian Modica), the mosaic has found a new place into the new Campus Saint Paul of the Lyon Catholic University in 2016.