A black cardboard frame containing a collage screened by transparent opaline paper. Within the composition, a yellow triangle against a dark background appears to project a figure from a black-and-white photo in the foreground. The face of the actor Richard Barthelmess in William Wellman’s film Heroes for Sale (1933), which focuses on the American Great Depression of the 1930s, is covered by a strip of black cardboard sticking out of the composition. Used by Mauri in several other works (inv. 207, 916), the image portrays the protagonist in front of an American Chamber of Commerce billboard, declaring its helplessness over unemployed workers’ desperate plight: ‘Jobless men keep going, we cannot take care of our own.’