Glazed ceramic and plaster. An artist's label is located under the base. This work is part of Walter Guidobaldi's 1990s-2000s production, known as Wal, and specifically his series of putti, sculptures in the round made of marble, bronze, resin, or terracotta, both monumental and small in size, featuring mischievous putti engaged in feats of skill. Wal, starting in the 1980s, became part of the Nuovi-nuovi movement, artists characterized by a playful lightness, almost worthy of Palazzeschi, and by a revival of color, imagery, and manual skill, thus responding to the overly "cold," intellectualistic climate that had developed in the 1970s around the poetics of so-called "conceptual" art.