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« The Vollard Suite takes its name from Ambroise Vollard, the avant-garde picture dealer and print publisher,
who gave Picasso his first exhibition in Paris in 1901. Picasso produced the 100 plates that form the suite between
1930 and 1937, with the majority in 1933 when the project began to take shape as a ‘commission’ in exchange
for some pictures from Vollard. (…) The prints were made when Picasso was involved in a passionate affair
with his muse and model Marie-Thérèse Walter, whose classical features are a recurrent presence in the series.
They offer an ongoing process of change and metamorphosis that eludes any final resolution. Picasso gave no
order to the plates nor did he assign any titles to them. When he later showed them to his lover Françoise Gilot
in the 1940s, he simply referred to them as ‘a series of etchings, a hundred of them, that I made for Vollard in
the 1930s’… »
Stephen Coppel,
Picasso Prints, The Vollard Suite
, Londres, The British Museum Press, 2012, p. 43.
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