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and "Cappello blu", exhibited at the Royal Palace in Milan in 1929, works that showed soft brush strokes and "forms that vanished in the light". Other works such as "Nudo Rosa" or "Figura (con cappello)" (1929; now in private collections, Turin) or "Corridore podista" (1930) show the influence of
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In 1926 he was invited for the first time to show in the Venice
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who designed sets, Menzio got to know foreign artists such as
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