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-faced honeyeater Latham in his 1801 work "Supplementum Indicis Ornithologici, sive Systematis Ornithologiae". However, he described it as three separate species, seemingly not knowing it was the same bird in each case: The blue-eared grackle ("Gracula cyanotis"), the blue-cheeked bee-eater ("Merops cyanops"), and as the blue-cheeked thrush ("Turdus cyanous"). It was as the blue-cheeked bee-eater that it was painted between 1788 and 1797 by Thomas Watling, one of a group known collectively as the Port Jackson Painter. It was reclassified in the genus "Entomyzon", which was erected by William Swainson in 1825, who observed the "Blue-faced Grakle" as the only insectivorous member