Pablo PICASSO The frugal meal - 1913 from the Saltimbanques suite Etching on Van Gelder Framed 46.2 x 38 cm Provenance: Christophe Czwiklitzer Collection To the present owners by inheritance Bibliography: Baer 2 II b - Bloch 1 Etching on Van Gelder printed in 1913 by Louis Fort, one of several known examples printed after the cancellation; framed; 18 1/4 x 15 in. Succession Picasso 2025 This proof printed in 1913 by Louis Fort is one of the many known copies printed after the cancellation of the plate, on Van Gelder wove paper. Fernande Olivier, Picasso's companion at the time, wrote in her memoirs about this work: "a man and a woman are sitting at a table in the wine merchant's shop and this couple exudes an intense expression of misery and alcoholism, of a frightening realism". Pablo PICASSO 46.2 x 38 cm