Neuberth came to painting through music: his father was principal violist of the Concerts Colonne, his mother a professional harpsichordist. He grew up steeped in jazz in particular. He didn't begin painting until 1942, prompted by an encounter with abstract painter Henri-Jean Closon. Yet despite a late start and several health crises — including a hemiplegia — he never stopped making art until his death in 1996. A critic described him in 1993 as "one of the most active representatives of abstract lyrics." In the 1970s he shifted from gouache to intricate sketching and collage, which corresponds to the dense, wiry ink drawings visible in this show. A posthumous retrospective of his gouaches and drawings 1959–1992 was held in Vers-Pont-du-Gard in 2002.