Circa 1922. Signature lower left. At the back Poma Gallery, Morcote. Roberto Marcello Baldessari Archive - Maurizio Scudiero, Rovereto, authenticity certificate. Provenance: Poma Gallery, Morcote; Private Collection, Morcote.
In 1922 Baldessari began to travel around Europe. First in Germany, where he met Schwitters, and then also in Spain, where he instead got to know Flamenco and frequented cabarets in search of interesting subjects. But in Germany, in Hanover, while helping Schwitters in the construction of the Marzbau, he approaches Dadaism and his practice of collage, of the recovery of fragments of printed matter used to create other meanings than the one for which they were conceived. With this technique between 1922 and 1923 he created a certain number of works that are halfway between Futurism and Dadaism.