This original etching and aquatint presents Picasso's masterful treatment of the still life genre, a subject he returned to throughout his career with endless formal invention. Created in 1955, the composition features a lemon and red pitcher arranged with the artist's characteristic spatial ambiguity, where multiple viewpoints collapse into a unified pictorial plane. The print demonstrates Picasso's sophisticated command of intaglio techniques, with the aquatint passages creating rich tonal variations that contrast beautifully against the precise etched lines. As an H.C. (Hors Commerce) impression from a limited edition, this work represents a particularly fine example, pulled before the numbered edition and reserved for the artist's personal collection and gifting. The work embodies Picasso's enduring fascination with deconstructing ordinary objects, transforming humble domestic items into vehicles for exploring perception and representation. The interplay between the warm red pitcher and the cool yellow lemon creates a dynamic color study within the monochromatic print medium, while the fractured forms suggest simultaneous viewpoints and the passage of time itself. For collectors of twentieth-century prints, this etching offers access to one of the period's most significant artists working in a particularly rich moment of his career, when his graphic output reached exceptional levels of experimentation and refinement.