The series of prints known as the Suite Vollard, brings together the 100 copperplates produced by Pablo Picasso between September 1930 and March 1937 as a commission from the art dealer and publisher Ambroise Vollard.

The complex history of the work’s origins, its varied subject matter and technique, involving the use of engraving, etching, aquatint, drypoint and their combinations, encouraged the break-up of the complete sets, for which reason very few have survived today. As such, the Suite Vollard in its entirety can be seen as one of the great artistic creations of the first half of the 20th century.

The complex history of the work’s origins, its varied subject matter and technique, involving the use of engraving, etching, aquatint, drypoint and their combinations, encouraged the break-up of the complete sets, for which reason very few have survived today. As such, the Suite Vollard in its entirety can be seen as one of the great artistic creations of the first half of the 20th century.