 Inspired by the views from his studio, Lucatello produced a series of paintings (oil on hardboard) entitled "Tetti di Venezia" ("Rooftops of Venice"), three of which were selected by the jury of the Venice Biennale, which awarded him the Tursi Prize
.In 1956 he began his collaboration with the Esther Robles Gallery of Los Angeles, which organized several solo and group exhibitions in California, and the same year exhibited in a show featuring European painters at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Houston, Texas
.The contract with the Californian gallery was to end abruptly and inexplicably just a few years later, however, given the political climate in America at that time, the era of McCarthyism, the reason likely lay in the artist's political leanings.