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As Helion's work showed more and more nostalgia for the world of man and nature, the pure abstractionists expressed some disapproval ; ;

but Leger, Arp, Lipchitz and Alexander Calder, at the time, gave him their blessing.

His canvases nowadays bore titles frankly declaring them to be `` Figures In Space '', or `` Blue Figure '', or `` Pink Figure '' ; ;

and they had ( vaguely ) heads and feet.

Exhibited in shows in London in 1935, and in New York the following year, the new, more elaborated abstracts were much favored in the circles of the modernists as three-dimentional dramas of great intellectual coherence.

At this period the thirty-year old Helion was ranked `` as one of the mature leaders of the modern movement '', according to Herbert Read, `` and in the direct line of descent from Cezanne, Seurat, Gris and Leger ''.

In America, Meyer Schapiro observed that, unlike the Mondrian school, Helion `` sought a return path to the fullness of nature within the framework of abstract art ''.