Picasso's Blue Period from his works. Members of the public were uninterested in displaying the Blue Period works in their homes. Picasso continued his output, but his financial situation suffered: From 1901 to 1903, he painted several posthumous portraits of Casagemas, culminating in the gloomy allegorical painting "La Vie", painted in 1903 and now in the Cleveland Museum of Art. The same mood pervades the well-known etching "The Frugal Repast" (1904) which depicts a blind man and a sighted woman, both emaciated, seated at a nearly bare table. Blindness is a recurrent theme in Picasso's works of this period, also represented in "The
Blue Northern remaining with the band for various periods between 1967 and 1974. Northwest Company had a number of hit singles in British Columbia. O'Toole later joined the band Shakedown, which was signed to Casino Records, though releasing only one single during its 1976-1977 existence. Cowsill had been a professional musician for a comparable period to that of O'Toole, having previously achieved international success with The Cowsills in the 1960s. Blue Northern's first release, "Blue", was a four-song EP released in 1979 on Quintessence Records. The label, which evolved from an independent retail record store in Vancouver of the same name, was