[1] He was briefly associated with the Turin group of “second generation” Futurists which included the painters Fillìa, Enrico Prampolini and Ugo Pozzo.

[1] By 1929 he was back in Turin, where he founded the "Gruppo dei Sei" ("Group of the Six") along with his friends Jessie Boswell, Gigi Chessa, Nicola Galante, Carlo Levi and Francesco Menzio.

[1] His paintings from this period show his interest in expressionist art, especially the work of Henri Matisse and Raoul Dufy.

[6] Although each artist had an individual style, they were linked together by the influence of Parisian Post-Impressionism and fauvism, including the work of Amedeo Modigliani, and their anti-fascist ideology – a position that set them apart from other movements like Novecento Italiano and Futurism.

[8] In 1948, he realized the scenery and costumes for Darius Milhaud's Les Malheurs d'Orphée, staged at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice.