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
Mark P. Painter Mark P. Painter Mark Philip Painter (born April 6, 1947), served from 1995–2009 as a judge of the Ohio 1st District Court of Appeals in Hamilton County (Cincinnati), after 13 years on the Hamilton County Municipal Court. In March 2009, Painter became the first American to be elected by the United Nations General Assembly to the United Nations Appeals Tribunal. In 2012, Painter resigned from the Appeals Tribunal and joined the Cincinnati law firm Manley Burke as Of Counsel. A native Cincinnatian, Painter grew up in the city of Blue Ash a Cincinnati suburb, and was a member of the