Prints
The Frugal Meal
Print
Details
- Author / creator
- Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973)
- Object type
- Date or period
- September 1904, printed 1913
- Dimensions summary
- Image: 45.5 × 37 cm; Plate: 46.3 × 37.6 cm; Sheet: 63 × 49.8 cm
- Place of origin
- Spain
- Acquisition method
- Purchase
- Credit line
- Purchased with the Founder's Endowment, 1929
- Paper / support
- Laid paper
- State and impression
- IIb/II (Geiser)
- Catalogue raisonné
- Bloch 1; Palau i Fabre 994; Geiser/Baer I.18.2
About this object
In this early print, Pablo Picasso depicted a couple—possibly two performers—sitting before a meager meal. Although the woman gazes forward directly, her male companion's unfocused stare suggests his blindness. This subject was one that Picasso explored during his Blue Period (1901–4), a stage of his career when he used a predominantly cool palette to depict figures marginalized by society.
Materials and technique
Etching
Signature and marks
watermark: VAN GELDER ZONEN
