In the period from 1920 to 1930., Years marked by friendship and close contact with Giorgio de Chirico, he returned to figurative painting, but without the renunciation of abstraction. At this time, it depicts the objects color spots and marks, to emphasize the broad white outlines (we can assume that these features art Manelli was chained to the attention of the young Nicolas de Stael) - these works are somewhat reminiscent of Florentine primitives, which he valued so highly .
In the late 1920's. he ceased to paint, but in 1931, under the strong impression of the trip to Carrara, where he saw the marble quarries, he created a great series of "Stones" or fractured rocks. In the same year he moved to Paris, where in 1934 he had a solo exhibition.
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