Tuesday, October 30th, 2012

British Museum announces major aquisition of complete set of Picasso’s Vollard Suite

November 30, 2011 by  
Filed under Museums & Galleries

LONDON.- The British Museum announces the major acquisition of a complete set of Picasso’s Vollard Suite, which will go on display at the Museum in the summer of 2012. The suite comprises 100 etchings produced by Picasso between 1930 and 1937 and is the most important cycle of etchings produced by arguably the 20th century’s most important artist. This will be the only complete Vollard Suite held by a public museum in the UK and only a handful of museums in the world [...]