G. Appolinaire

organized a provocative exhibition, and Jean Cocteau

Elena Diakonova, whom he married in 1917. Elena entered the world of the Dadaists, and later, by which time she was known as Gala, “the muse of the Surrealists”.

Unable to resign himself to the death of Dada, Tristan Tzara tried in July 1923 to organize a performance at the Michel Théâtre in Paris entitled “Evening of the Bearded Heart”.